yawny

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English

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Etymology

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From yawn +‎ -y.

Adjective

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yawny (comparative yawnier, superlative yawniest)

  1. Prone to yawning.
    • 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All:
      Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...
  2. Sounding like a yawn.
    • 2011, Craig Groeschel, Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After, page 13:
      I drew the deepest, yawniest breath I could fake and swiftly lifted my right arm.
  3. Boring, uninteresting, causing yawns.