English [ edit ]
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Etymology [ edit ]
sleepy + head
Pronunciation [ edit ]
Audio (Southern England) (file )
sleepyhead (plural sleepyheads )
( informal ) A sleepy person.
Hey now sleepyhead , it's time for you to go to bed.
1966 September 23, Ogden Nash , “Book Review: A Precious String of Perelman Pearls: Chicken Inspector No. 23 by S. I. Perelman”, in 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 , published 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 .
Derived terms [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
sleepy person
Belarusian: со́ня m or f ( sónja ) , спёха m or f ( spjóxa )
Bulgarian: съ́нльо m ( sǎ́nljo ) , съ́нла f ( sǎ́nla )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 懶豬 / 懒猪 ( lǎnzhū )
Czech: spáč m , ospalec (cs) m
Danish: syvsover (da) c
Dutch: slaapkop (nl) c
Esperanto: dormulo , dormulino ( female )
Estonian: unimüts
Finnish: unikeko (fi)
French: endormi (fr) m , endormie (fr) f
Galician: durmiñón (gl) m , durmiñona f
German: Schlafmütze (de) f ( colloquial ) , Schlafhaube f ( South German )
Greek: υπναράς (el) m ( ypnarás )
Hungarian: álomszuszék (hu)
Icelandic: svefnpurka f
Italian: dormiglione (it) m
Japanese: 寝坊助 ( ねぼすけ, nebosuke )
Kazakh: ұйқышыл ( ūiqyşyl )
Korean: 잠꾸러기 (ko) ( jamkkureogi )
Kumyk: юхучу ( yuxuçu )
Kyrgyz: уйкучу (ky) ( uykucu )
Maori: moeroa , tohetaka
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjusover m , syvsover m
Nynorsk: sjusovar m
Ottoman Turkish: اویقوجی ( uykucu )
Plautdietsch: Dusel m
Polish: śpioch (pl) m
Portuguese: dorminhoco (pt) m , dorminhoca f
Russian: со́ня (ru) m or f ( sónja ) , со́нька (ru) m or f ( sónʹka ) ( endearingly ) , засо́ня (ru) m or f ( zasónja ) , засо́нька m or f ( zasónʹka ) ( endearingly ) , дрыху́н (ru) m ( dryxún ) , дрыху́нья f ( dryxúnʹja ) ( colloquial ) , дрыхня́ (ru) m or f ( dryxnjá ) , дры́хля m or f ( drýxlja )
Sinhalese: නිදිකුම්බා (si) ( nidikumbā )
Slovak: spachtoš m
Slovene: zaspánec m , zaspánka f
Spanish: dormilón (es) m , dormilona (es) f , modorro (es)
Swedish: sömntuta (sv) c , sjusovare (sv) c
Tagalog: antukin
Turkish: uykucu (tr) , miskin (tr)
Ukrainian: сплюх m ( spljux ) , сплю́ха f ( spljúxa ) , со́ня m or f ( sónja ) , сонько́ n ( sonʹkó ) , спанько́ n ( spanʹkó ) , дріма́йло n ( drimájlo ) , соню́га m or f ( sonjúha )
Volapük: slifilöfan , slifihilöfan ( male ) , slifijilöfan ( female ) , slifilöfanil ( diminutive )