Sleepy-eyed

Definition: Sleepy-eyed

Sleepy-eyed

Adjective

1. Ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students".

Date "sleepy-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references)

Synonyms: Sleepy-eyed

Synonyms: sleepy (adj), sleepyheaded (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sleepy-eyed

English words defined with "sleepy-eyed": sleepy, sleepyheaded. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Sleepy-eyed

"Sleepy-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sleepy-eyed" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sleepy-eyed

Language		Translations for "sleepy-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		заспанный (sleepy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sleepy-eyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-l-p-s-y-y"
	-3 letters: speeled.
	-4 letters: deeply, peeled, seeled, seeped, sleepy, speedy, yelped.
	-5 letters: deeps, deles, epees, lysed, pedes, peels, peles, seedy, seely, seepy, sleep, slype, speed, speel, yelps.
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