sleepyhead

See also: sleepy head

English

Alternative forms

• sleepy head

Etymology

From sleepy +‎ head.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sleepyhead (plural sleepyheads)

1. (informal) A sleepy person.

   Hey now sleepyhead, it's time for you to go to bed.

   • 1947, Willard Robison (lyrics and music), “Don't Smoke in Bed”, performed by Peggy Lee:

     Goodbye, old sleepyhead / I'm packing you in like I said / Take care of everything / I'm leaving my wedding ring

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2001, Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within, published 2011, page 185:

     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?”

   • 2007, Jefffrey P. Brown, Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, page 33:

     “Why, yes,” said Augustus, “the birds seem to be the first ones up each morning, awakening the sleepyheads.”

2. The ruddy duck.

Derived terms

• National Sleepy Head Day

 

Translations

sleepy person

• Belarusian: со́ня m or f (sónja), спёха m or f (spjóxa)
• Bulgarian: съ́нльо m (sǎ́nljo), съ́нла f (sǎ́nla)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懶豬／懒猪 (lǎnzhū)

• Czech: spáč m, ospalec (cs) m
• Danish: syvsover (da) c
• Dutch: slaapkop (nl) c
• Esperanto: dormulo, dormulino (female)
• Estonian: unimüts
• Finnish: unikeko (fi)
• French: endormi (fr) m, endormie (fr) f
• Galician: durmiñón (gl) m, durmiñona f
• German: Schlafmütze (de) f (colloquial), Schlafhaube f (South German)
• Greek: υπναράς (el) m (ypnarás)
• Hungarian: álomszuszék (hu)
• Icelandic: svefnpurka f
• Italian: dormiglione (it) m
• Japanese: 寝坊助 (ja) (ねぼすけ, nebosuke)
• Kazakh: ұйқышыл (ūiqyşyl)
• Korean: 잠꾸러기 (ko) (jamkkureogi)
• Kumyk: юхучу (yuxuçu)
• Kyrgyz: уйкучу (ky) (uykucu)
• Maori: moeroa, tohetaka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjusover m, syvsover m

  Nynorsk: sjusovar m

• Ottoman Turkish: اویقوجی (uykucu)
• Plautdietsch: Dusel m
• Polish: śpioch (pl) m
• Portuguese: dorminhoco (pt) m, dorminhoca f
• Russian: со́ня (ru) m or f (sónja), со́нька (ru) m or f (sónʹka) (endearingly), засо́ня (ru) m or f (zasónja), засо́нька m or f (zasónʹka) (endearingly), дрыху́н (ru) m (dryxún), дрыху́нья f (dryxúnʹja) (colloquial), дрыхня́ (ru) m or f (dryxnjá), дры́хля m or f (drýxlja)
• Sinhalese: නිදිකුම්බා (si) (nidikumbā)
• Slovak: spachtoš m
• Slovene: zaspánec m, zaspánka f
• Spanish: dormilón (es) m, dormilona (es) f, modorro (es)
• Swedish: sömntuta (sv) c, sjusovare (sv) c
• Tagalog: antukin
• Turkish: uykucu (tr), miskin (tr)
• Ukrainian: сплюх m (spljux), сплю́ха f (spljúxa), со́ня m or f (sónja), сонько́ n (sonʹkó), спанько́ n (spanʹkó), дріма́йло n (drimájlo), соню́га m or f (sonjúha)
• Volapük: slifilöfan , slifihilöfan (male), slifijilöfan (female), slifilöfanil (diminutive)

ruddy duck — see ruddy duck