• Sleepy-dust

    Full definition of sleepy-dust

    Noun

    sleepy-dust

    (uncountable)
    1. Alternative spelling of sleepy dust
      • 2006, Andrew Motion, In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood, David R. Godine (2007), ISBN 9781567923391, page 159:The two boys didn't interest me much — the older one, Simon, was so dozy he always had sleepy-dust in the corner of his eyes,
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