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Sleepyheaded

Definition: Sleepyheaded

Sleepyheaded

Adjective

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sleepyheaded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)


Synonyms: Sleepyheaded

Synonyms: sleepy (adj), sleepy-eyed (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Sleepyheaded

Language Translations for "sleepyheaded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

à moitié endormi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eepyheadedslay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sleepyheaded

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-e-h-l-p-s-y"

-2 letters: sleepyhead.

-3 letters: aldehydes.

-4 letters: aldehyde, deadeyes, eyeshade.

-5 letters: daledhs, deadeye, deashed, delayed, deleads, elapsed, eyelash, hayseed, heddles, leashed, paddles, pedaled, peddles, plashed, pleaded, pleased, sepaled, shapely, speeded, speeled, splayed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sleepyheaded


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 65 65 70 79 68 65 61 64 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-..    .    .    .--.    -.--.    ....    .    .-    -..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01100101 01100101 01110000 01111001 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#101 &#101 &#112 &#121 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0065 0065 0070 0079 0068 0065 0061 0064 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537871718291747167707170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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