sleeptalker

English

Etymology

From sleep +‎ talker or sleeptalk +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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?"

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Synonyms

• somniloquist

Anagrams

• preskeletal, stallkeeper