somniloquist
English
editEtymology
editFrom somniloquy + -ist.
Noun
editsomniloquist (plural somniloquists)
- A person who talks in his/her sleep.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 355:
- He drooled incessantly, alternately moaning and cursing in a low somniloquist's voice