drowsy-head
Definition
Noun: A person who is habitually sleepy or drowsy; someone inclined to doze off frequently.
Usage Examples
- (A person who is often sleepy.)
- (A person who struggles to stay awake.)
Advanced Usage
- "to be a drowsy-head": to have a tendency to feel sleepy or lethargic.
- After the big lunch, I felt like a complete drowsy-head. (I felt very sleepy and sluggish.)
Variants and Related Words
- Drowsy (adj): feeling sleepy or half-asleep.
- The warm room made her feel drowsy. (She felt inclined to sleep.)
- Drowsiness (n): the state of being sleepy.
- The medication causes drowsiness. (It induces sleepiness.)
Synonyms
- Sleepyhead: a person who is often sleepy or slow to wake up.
- Napper: someone who takes short sleeps or dozes frequently.
Related Idioms
- Head nodding: the act of falling asleep briefly and repeatedly.
- He was head nodding during the movie. (He was dozing off.)
Phrasal Verbs
- Doze off: to fall into a light sleep.
- She dozed off while reading. (She fell asleep briefly.)
- Nod off: to fall asleep unintentionally.
- He nodded off during the lecture. (He fell asleep without meaning to.)