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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sleepy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
quiet/sleepy (=one where there is not a lot of activity)
▪ Downham was a sleepy little village, with a road barely wide enough for one car.
sleepy (=very quiet, with not much happening)
▪ Johnson grew up in the sleepy retirement town of Asheville.
sleepy/tired
▪ His eyes looked sleepy.
▪ Her hair was a mess and her eyes were tired.
sleepy/tired (also wearyliterary)
▪ He rubbed his tired eyes and yawned.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
▪ They seemed confused as to what was going on, but were too sleepy to make too loud an objection.
▪ He was too sleepy to form specific questions and answers, and too tense to get to sleep.
▪ But she is still too sleepy for visitors.
■ NOUN
town
▪ Edwards throughout seemed to be doing little more than the droning clergy in sleepy towns did all along.
▪ Some had been shot while others spent their time in a sleepy town.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Aren't you sleepy?" "No, I took a nap this afternoon."
▪ It's no easy task getting three sleepy children out of the car and into the house.
▪ It was a sleepy provincial hotel, not used to having more than two people staying there at any one time.
▪ She headed for the High Street, the only lively spot in the sleepy little town.
▪ Sticklepath is a sleepy little town right in the heart of the Devonshire countryside.
▪ Ten years ago, this was a sleepy fishing village.
▪ We arrived at the hotel late at night, and were too sleepy to notice how beautiful it was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But having driven through this sleepy Cambridgeshire backwater this week, I sincerely hope they were ousted from office and then shot.
▪ Five years later, the international oil market is serene, even sleepy.
▪ He cast sleepy eyes toward the door to his bedroom.
▪ I was beginning to feel sleepy and I began to sing, softly, to myself.
▪ Once I said to Claudine that her house was sleepy.
▪ The imaginative and nimble have registered lots of famous corporate names before their sleepy owners realized what was happening.
▪ The next afternoon Mornat returned with two fat and sleepy lizards.
▪ The religious fracas shook the house, our sleepy old house where no one debated principles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleepy

Sleepy \Sleep"y\, a. [Compar. Sleepier; superl. Sleepiest.]

  1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
    --Shak.

    She waked her sleepy crew.
    --Dryden.

  2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
    --Chaucer.

  3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
    --Shak.

    'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
    --Shak.

  4. Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.

    Sleepy duck (Zo["o]l.), the ruddy duck.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sleepy

early 13c. from sleep (n.) + -y (2). Perhaps in Old English but not recorded. Old English had slæpor, slæpwerig in the sense "sleepy;" slæpnes "sleepiness." Similar formation in Old High German slafag. Of places, from 1851 (Irving's Sleepy Hollow is from 1820). Sleepy-head is from 1570s. Related: Sleepily; sleepiness.

Wiktionary
sleepy

a. 1 tired; feeling the need for sleep. 2 Suggesting tiredness. 3 Tending to induce sleep; soporific. 4 dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. 5 Quiet; without bustle or activity. n. (context informal English) The gum that builds up in the eye

WordNet
sleepy
  1. adj. ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students" [syn: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded]

  2. [also: sleepiest, sleepier]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Sleepy (novel)

Sleepy is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris and Roz. It is part of the " Psi Powers series".

Sleepy

Sleepy means feeling a need for sleep. It may also refer to:

  • Sleepy (character), a character in the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Sleepy (novel), a novel by Kate Orman based on the TV series Doctor Who
  • Sleepy Bill Burns (1880–1953), American baseball player
  • Sleepy Brown (born 1970), African American musician
  • Sleepy Floyd (born 1960), retired American professional basketball player
  • Sleepy John Estes (1899–1977), African American musician
  • Sleepy LaBeef (born 1935), American rockabilly musician
  • Sleepy Tripp (born 1953), American racecar driver

Usage examples of "sleepy".

He had given the name of Stanley Adams, and had had such a queerly thick droning voice, that it made the clerk abnormally dizzy and sleepy to listen to him.

Some babies are so sleepy during their first weeks of life that a feeding tires them out and they will fall asleep midway, more content to snooze than to eat.

And yet I felt a curious emanation coming from the first level of the stepped mountain ahead of us, an odd kind of beckoning, as though a deep sleepy voice were saying.

Euthanasia listened from her tower, and heard the last song of the sleepy cicala among the olive woods, and the buzz of the numerous night insects, that filled the air with their slight but continual noise.

There was a sleepy muttering of cushats to the south of him, and then, with a clatter which made him jump, the birds rose in a flock and flew across the valley.

The famous Dazzler was a tallish, thin young man, with an admirable forehead and sleepy brown eyes, and was considered by less prejudiced observers to be both personable and agreeable, though he concealed his excellent brain behind a manner often bordering upon imbecility.

She ran to her son and took him on her knee, but the sleepy boy did not respond to her kisses with any great warmth.

Gillings issued a summons for the owners, brothers named Dick and Harry Ditts, who had told an entirely different tale the previous evening when they had recovered from sleepy gas.

When the witch was off gathering firewood or fetching water, Yvaine would open up his cage and stroke him and talk to him, and, on several occasions, she sang to him, although she could not tell whether anything of Tristran remained in the dormouse, who stared up at her with placid, sleepy eyes, like droplets of black ink, and whose fur was softer than down.

While Auntie was pushing and shaking the sleepy Ritz, Edi had tried several times to get near her, but she had always escaped him.

He was not sleepy now, but energized, keyed up to the brink of some extraordinary effort.

Out of their beds tumbled the sleepy people of Fontanelle, and, wrapping themselves in blankets or any garment they could snatch, they ran out of doors and gazed anxiously into the sky.

Leaving the door an inch open he returned to the gerbil which regarded him with sleepy nonchalance but, at the moment he crouched to pick it up, darted away from his hand.

John the gerbil was in his night-time box at its foot, engaged in a sleepy wash.

When they were partners, Pierce was called the sleepy guy, because of his droopy eyelids, and Gibby was the wide-awake guy.