English
Etymology
sleepy + head
Pronunciation
Noun
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, 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
- 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), 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
- German: Schlafmütze (de) f (colloquial), Schlafhaube f (South German)
- Greek: υπναράς (el) m (ypnarás)
- Hungarian: álomszuszék (hu)
- Icelandic: svefnpurka f
- Japanese: 寝坊助 (ねぼすけ, nebosuke), スリーピーヘッド (surīpīheddo)
- Kazakh: ұйқышыл (ūiqyşyl)
- Korean: 잠꾸러기 (ko) (jamkkureogi)
- Kumyk: юхучу (yuxuçu)
- Kyrgyz: уйкучу (ky) (uykucu)
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- Maori: moeroa, tohetaka
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjusover m, syvsover m
- Nynorsk: sjusovar m
- 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)
- Slovak: spachtoš m
- Slovene: zaspánec m, zaspánka f
- Spanish: dormilón (es) m, dormilona (es) f, modorro (es)
- Swedish: sömntuta (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)
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