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Sleepy Eye

Sleepy Eye proper noun: a lake in Minnesota, United States.

Proper noun

Sleepy Eye

  1. A lake in Minnesota, United States.
  2. A small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States.
    • The employees contend that inasmuch as there are seven engines hostled at Sleepy Eye within a 12-hour period, a hostler from the ranks of the firemen must be assigned […]1924, Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board, page 732

Origin of Sleepy Eye

The city is named after the lake, which was named after a local Dakota chief of the 1800s, said to have had a drooping eyelid or eyelids.

Questions about Sleepy Eye

What does Sleepy Eye mean?
Sleepy Eye means a lake in Minnesota, United States.
What part of speech is Sleepy Eye?
Sleepy Eye is a proper noun.

Words near Sleepy Eye in the dictionary

  1. sleepy cod
  2. sleepy crab
  3. sleepy distemper
  4. Sleepy Don
  5. sleepy dust
  6. Sleepy Eye
  7. sleepy gobies
  8. sleepy goby
  9. sleepy head
  10. sleepy heads
  11. Sleepy Hollow

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