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Wikipedia has an article on: Sleepy

Pronunciation

Adjective

sleepy (comparative sleepier, superlative sleepiest)

  1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

Synonyms

Noun

sleepy (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye.
    • 1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion
      "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...
    • 1991, Martin Amis, London fields
      But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...

 

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