noun
Meaning 1
A sleepy person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- Hey now sleepyhead, it's time for you to go to bed.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sleepyhead
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General-American: /ˈslipiˌhɛd/
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noun
Meaning 2
The ruddy duck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a sleepy person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
History
Etymology
From sleepy + head.
Across languages
Translations
71 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Southern Altai: уйкучы (uykučï) — sleepy person
- Belarusian: со́ня (sónja) — sleepy person
- Belarusian: спёха (spjóxa) — sleepy person
- Bulgarian: съ́нльо (sǎ́nljo) — sleepy person
- Bulgarian: съ́нла (sǎ́nla) — sleepy person
- Chinese Mandarin: 懶豬 /懒猪 (lǎnzhū) — sleepy person
- Czech: spáč — sleepy person
- Czech: ospalec — sleepy person
- Danish: syvsover — sleepy person
- Dutch: slaapkop — sleepy person
- Esperanto: dormulo — sleepy person
- Esperanto: dormulino — sleepy person
- Estonian: unimüts — sleepy person
- Finnish: unikeko — sleepy person
- French: endormi — sleepy person
- French: endormie — sleepy person
- Galician: durmiñón — sleepy person
- Galician: durmiñona — sleepy person
- German: Schlafmütze — sleepy person
- German: Schlafhaube — sleepy person
- Greek: υπναράς (ypnarás) — sleepy person
- Hungarian: álomszuszék — sleepy person
- Icelandic: svefnpurka — sleepy person
- Irish: codlatán — sleepy person
- Italian: dormiglione — sleepy person
- Japanese: 寝坊助 (nebosuke) — sleepy person
- Kazakh: ұйқышыл (ūiqyşyl) — sleepy person
- Korean: 잠꾸러기 (jamkkureogi) — sleepy person
- Kumyk: юхучу (yuxuçu) — sleepy person
- Kyrgyz: уйкучу (uykucu) — sleepy person
- Māori: moeroa — sleepy person
- Māori: tohetaka — sleepy person
- Norwegian Bokmål: sjusover — sleepy person
- Norwegian Bokmål: syvsover — sleepy person
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sjusovar — sleepy person
- Plautdietsch: Dusel — sleepy person
- Polish: śpioch — sleepy person
- Portuguese: dorminhoco — sleepy person
- Portuguese: dorminhoca — sleepy person
- Russian: со́ня (sónja) — sleepy person
- Russian: со́нька (sónʹka) — sleepy person
- Russian: засо́ня (zasónja) — sleepy person
- Russian: засо́нька (zasónʹka) — sleepy person
- Russian: дрыху́н (dryxún) — sleepy person
- Russian: дрыху́нья (dryxúnʹja) — sleepy person
- Russian: дрыхня́ (dryxnjá) — sleepy person
- Russian: дры́хля (drýxlja) — sleepy person
- Sinhalese: නිදිකුම්බා (nidikumbā) — sleepy person
- Slovak: spachtoš — sleepy person
- Slovene: zaspánec — sleepy person
- Slovene: zaspánka — sleepy person
- Spanish: dormilón — sleepy person
- Spanish: dormilona — sleepy person
- Spanish: modorro — sleepy person
- Swedish: sömntuta — sleepy person
- Swedish: sjusovare — sleepy person
- Tagalog: antukin — sleepy person
- Turkish: uykucu — sleepy person
- Turkish: miskin — sleepy person
- Ottoman Turkish: اویقوجی (uykucu) — sleepy person
- Ukrainian: сплюх (spljux) — sleepy person
- Ukrainian: сплю́ха (spljúxa) — sleepy person
- Ukrainian: со́ня (sónja) — sleepy person
- Ukrainian: сонько́ (sonʹkó) — sleepy person
- Ukrainian: спанько́ (spanʹkó) — sleepy person
- Ukrainian: дріма́йло (drimájlo) — sleepy person
- Ukrainian: соню́га (sonjúha) — sleepy person
- Volapük: slifilöfan — sleepy person
- Volapük: slifihilöfan — sleepy person
- Volapük: slifijilöfan — sleepy person
- Volapük: slifilöfanil — sleepy person