Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who yawns.
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- noun A person who
yawns . - noun figuratively Something
unexciting orboring that inducesyawning , as abook ,sporting event , orperformance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who yawns
Etymologies
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Examples
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Saying a NFL division match-up with playoff implications is a yawner is a pretty big stretch, especially considering how physical the Giants and Eagles are.
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First there was a dreary 0-0 tie versus Uruguay the kind of yawner that if you had showed it to a soccer-ambivalent American, hoping to get them hooked on the Beautiful Game, they'd have called the police on you.
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The Basilica is certainly no "yawner" and I take that back.
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Choosing someone from PETA or HSUS as villian of the year would be a yawner -- yeah, what else is new?
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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In Geronimo v. Obama the descendants of Geronimo have filed suit, demanding that the Yale Skull and Bones society return to them the skull of Go-lah-ka-yey (the yawner) who died of pneumonia in 1909 while still a prisoner in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
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Buying cokes on your cell fone is coming, but it is a yawner, and has nothing to do with rural broadband.
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Now at the top of the local politics food chain, Adams 'weaknesses are revealed, and the revelation is a yawner: Adams is, in fact, a mediocre leader who's finding out that the smarmy platitudes are no longer sufficient, and cannot replace leadership, real ethics, and courageous judgement.
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Choosing someone from PETA or HSUS as villian of the year would be a yawner -- yeah, what else is new?
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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They were important conversations, picked right out of the books ... but ... well, kind of a yawner.
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In Geronimo v. Obama the descendants of Geronimo have filed suit, demanding that the Yale Skull and Bones society return to them the skull of Go-lah-ka-yey (the yawner) who died of pneumonia in 1909 while still a prisoner in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
yarb commented on the word yawner
Even regarding the rose
through world-coloured spectacles,
the worldliest yawner is still awed.
- Peter Reading, Almanac, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977
June 26, 2008