sleepy : Idioms & Phrases

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sleepy dick

  • noun common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States
    Ornithogalum umbellatum; summer snowflake; starflower.
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Sleepy duck

  • (Zoöl.), the ruddy duck.
Webster 1913

sleepy sickness

  • noun an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
    sleeping sickness; epidemic encephalitis; encephalitis lethargica; lethargic encephalitis.
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sleepy-eyed

  • adjective satellite ready to fall asleep
    sleepy; sleepyheaded.
    • beginning to feel sleepy
    • a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
    • sleepyheaded students
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