sleepyhead
See also: sleepy head
English
Alternative forms
- sleepy head
Etymology
sleepy + head
Pronunciation
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Noun
sleepyhead (plural sleepyheads)
- (informal) A sleepy person.
- Hey now sleepyhead, it's time for you to go to bed.
- 1947, Willard Robison (lyrics and music), “Don't Smoke in Bed”, performed by Peggy Lee:
- Goodbye, old sleepyhead / I'm packing you in like I said / Take care of everything / I'm leaving my wedding ring
- 1966 September 23, Ogden Nash, Book Review: A Precious String of Perelman Pearls: Chicken Inspector No. 23 by S. I. Perelman, LIFE, page 11,
- It consists in asking each sleepyhead in turn which 10 characters, historical or fictional, he would choose to be stranded with on a desert island.
- 2001, Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within, 2011, page 185,
- The following morning, Liz had to come and shake David awake.
- “Hey, sleepyhead, rise and shine. I've been tapping your door for the past ten minutes. Aren't you going to college today?”
- 2007, Jefffrey P. Brown, Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, page 33,
- “Why, yes,” said Augustus, “the birds seem to be the first ones up each morning, awakening the sleepyheads.”
- The ruddy duck.
Translations
sleepy person
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ruddy duck — see ruddy duck