sleepy
/ˈsliːpi/ verb C2- To sleep.
Verb forms
- Base form
- sleepy
- He/she/it
- sleepies
- Past
- sleepied
- Past participle
- sleepied
- -ing form
- sleepying
From the library
Danglars was tired and sleepy; he therefore went to bed, placing his pocketbook under his pillow.
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Each little Indian sleepy-head
'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?'
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