sleeptalker

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Etymology

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From sleep +‎ talker or sleeptalk +‎ -er.

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Noun

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sleeptalker (plural sleeptalkers)

  1. A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.
    • 2008, Christian Jarrett, Joannah Ginsburg, This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology, Continuum, →ISBN, page 141:
      Often they will wake when their sleeptalking startles another person, who then makes a noise at being woken up, waking the sleeptalker to ask the other "What's wrong?"
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sleeptalker.

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