sleepish

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English

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Etymology

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From sleep +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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sleepish (comparative more sleepish, superlative most sleepish)

  1. sleepy; drowsy
    • 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie [], London: [] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, [], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
      One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.
    • 2010, Brenda Croan, Hidden in a Pillow:
      She answered the telephone with a sleepish sounding voice, since she wasn't fully awake yet.