shut-eye

noun
/ˈʃʌtaɪ/

Etymology

From shut + eye.

  1. inherited from ēaġan
  2. inherited from eyen
  3. derived from *h₃okʷ-
  4. inherited from *augô — “eye
  5. inherited from *augā
  6. inherited from ēage — “eye
  7. inherited from eye
  8. compounded as shut-eye — “shut + eye

Definitions

  1. Sleep.

    • With the night so quiet and peaceful, though, there was nothing he could do except return to camp and try to get a little shut-eye himself.
    • To make matters worse, he sorely needs some shut-eye. “Not to get into it, but I’m not a great sleeper,” he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shut-eye. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA