sleepyhead
nounUS /ˈslipiˌhɛd/
Etymology From sleepy + head.
1
Informal A sleepy person.
- Hey now sleepyhead, it's time for you to go to bed.
- Goodbye, old sleepyhead / I'm packing you in like I said / Take care of everything / I'm leaving my wedding ring1947, Willard Robison, “Don't Smoke in Bed”, performed by Peggy Lee:
3 more examples
- 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.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:
- 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?”2001, Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within, published 2011, page 185:
- “Why, yes,” said Augustus, “the birds seem to be the first ones up each morning, awakening the sleepyheads.”2007, Jefffrey P. Brown, Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, page 33:
2
The ruddy duck.
- Derived terms
- National Sleepy Head Day