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nappishness

nappishness noun: slight tiredness, sleepiness.

Noun

nappishness (uncountable)

  1. Slight tiredness, sleepiness
    • We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin of nappishness

From nappish + -ness.

Questions about nappishness

What does nappishness mean?
Nappishness means slight tiredness, sleepiness.
What part of speech is nappishness?
Nappishness is a noun.

Words near nappishness in the dictionary

  1. napping the regulars
  2. nappings
  3. Nappinnai
  4. Nappis
  5. nappish
  6. nappishness
  7. Nappo
  8. Nappos
  9. Napps
  10. nappuccino
  11. nappuccinos

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