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wideawake

noun

Etymology

* From wide awake. * (hat): From a pun in Punch magazine, relating to the fact that the hat had no nap.

Definitions

  1. A bird, the sooty tern.

  2. A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.

    • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories" Wisps of white hair straggled from under his wideawake […]

  3. Ascension Island

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wideawake. 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