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sleepy sand

sleepy sand noun: sleep (rheum around the eyes).

Noun

sleepy sand (uncountable)

  1. Sleep (rheum around the eyes).
    • Sleep in your eyes, sleep crust, sand, eye gunk—whatever you call it, we all get it—that crusty stuff in the corners of your eyes when you wake up in the morning. "The medical term is 'rheum,' though you rarely hear it used," […]2018 January 3, Moran Eye Center, “Is That Morning 'Eye Gunk' Normal?”, in HealthFeed Blog, University of Utah Hospital, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2020
  2. The sand or dust that the Sandman throws in people's eyes.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleepy, sand.

Questions about sleepy sand

What does sleepy sand mean?
Sleepy sand means sleep (rheum around the eyes).
What part of speech is sleepy sand?
Sleepy sand is a noun.

Words near sleepy sand in the dictionary

  1. sleepy head
  2. sleepy heads
  3. Sleepy Hollow
  4. Sleepy Joe
  5. sleepy lizard
  6. sleepy sand
  7. sleepy sickness
  8. sleepy underwing
  9. sleepy-bye
  10. sleepy-byes
  11. sleepy-dust

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