Definizione monolingua

sleepy

sleepy (uncountable)

1. (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
   • 1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion

     ""Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?"" ""Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...

   • 1991, Martin Amis, London fields

     But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...

sleepy (comparative sleepier, superlative sleepiest)

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
2. Suggesting tirednes.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorationsas the tree had recovered from the collision.

Definizione dizionario sleepy

sonnolento

addormentato

assonato

assonnato

insonnolito

pigro

Altri significati:

Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

(informal) The gum that builds up in the eye.

feeling the need for sleep