different between sleepy vs sleepe
sleepy
English
Etymology
sleep +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sli?pi/
- Rhymes: -i?pi
Adjective
sleepy (comparative sleepier, superlative sleepiest)
- Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
- She wak'd her sleepy crew.
- Suggesting tiredness.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
- a sleepy drink or potion
- Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
- Quiet; without bustle or activity.
- a sleepy English village
Synonyms
- tired
- See also Thesaurus:sleepy
Translations
Noun
sleepy (uncountable)
- (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
- Synonym: (which see for more) sleep
Anagrams
- Epleys
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sleepe
English
Noun
sleepe (countable and uncountable, plural sleepes)
- Obsolete spelling of sleep
Verb
sleepe (third-person singular simple present sleepes, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slepte)
- Obsolete spelling of sleep
- 1633, John Donne, Loves Diet
- Now negligent of sports I lye,
And now as other Fawkners use,
I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.
- Now negligent of sports I lye,
- 1633, John Donne, Loves Diet
Anagrams
- Peeles, elpees, peeles
Middle English
Noun
sleepe
- Alternative form of sleep
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