sleepwalker
English
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editEtymology
editFrom sleep + walker or sleepwalk + -er.
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editsleepwalker (plural sleepwalkers)
- Someone who walks about in their sleep.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
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editsomnambulist — see somnambulist