sleepy
AdjektivSubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈsliːpi//
Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
Adjektiv
- 1
Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
She wak'd her sleepy crew.
- 2
Suggesting tiredness.
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 decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- 3
Tending to induce sleep.
a sleepy drink or potion
[T]he yong L. Roger Mortimer, […] hauing corrupted his Keepers, or (as ſome others vvrite) hauing potioned them vvith a ſleepy drinke, eſcaped out of the Tovver of London, getting ouer clearely vvithout any empeachment into France.
- 4
übertragenDull; lazy.
'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
- 5
übertragenQuiet; without bustle or activity.
a sleepy English village
Experts believe a pandemic welfare programme for poorer Brazilians has encouraged robbers to plan bold raids in sleepy regional cities where bank branches are storing more cash.
Usually sleepy border crossings into Kazakhstan and Mongolia have also been overwhelmed by the sudden influx of Russians looking for a way out.
Despite Horwich's international fame as a centre of railway engineering, Horwich station itself was usually quite a sleepy place.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *slēpaz Proto-West Germanic *slāp Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Proto-West Germanic *slāpag Old English *slǣpiġ Middle English slepy English sleepy From Middle English slepy, from Old English *slǣpiġ (attested in unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), dialectal Dutch slapig, slepig (“sleepy”), German Low German slapig, släpig, slöpig (“sleepy”), archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”).
Substantiv
- 1
umgangssprachlichThe gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
"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 […]
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 […]
- 2
Shingleback.
Verb
- 1
To sleep.
Gabe stays up far too late and gets up far too early and spends far too many hours at the studio. Gabe is trying to get his records produced, and to get all his other work done before Gabe flies out to frisco for AES. Gabe go sleepy now.
im going to sleep BEING UP 28 hours is not good for my health so. ill see you all tomorrow!
Other couples will bicker, or flirt, or make out right in front of you. "When the night is about to draw to an end, I'm not really sure if I want to hear the one ask the other, 'Want to go sleepy in the beddie?'" says Jason Scarlatti, a 34-year-old creative director for a Manhattan underwear company.
Formen
- Plural
- sleepies
- Komparativ
- sleepier
- Superlativ
- sleepiest