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yawny

adj

Etymology

From yawn + -y.

  1. derived from *ǵʰi-✻
  2. inherited from *gainōną✻ — “to yawn, gape”
  3. inherited from *gainōn✻
  4. inherited from gānian — “to yawn, gape”
  5. inherited from gonen — “to gape, yawn”
  6. inherited from *ginōną✻ — “to yawn”
  7. inherited from *ginōn✻
  8. inherited from ġinian
  9. inherited from yanen
  10. suffixed as yawny — “yawn + y”

Definitions

  1. Prone to yawning.

    • Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...

  2. Sounding like a yawn.

    • I drew the deepest, yawniest breath I could fake and swiftly lifted my right arm.

  3. Boring, uninteresting, causing yawns.

The neighborhood

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