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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who is in need of or groggy from sleep.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An idle, lazy person.
  • noun The sleepy duck.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sleepy person.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The ruddy duck.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun informal A sleepy person.
  • noun The ruddy duck.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sleepy person

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