sleepy

adj

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

   “She wak'd her sleepy crew.”

2. Suggesting tiredness.

   “At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.”

3. Tending to induce sleep.

   “a sleepy drink or potion”

   “[T]he yong L. Roger Mortimer, […] hauing corrupted his Keepers, or (as ſome others vvrite) hauing potioned them vvith a ſleepy drinke, eſcaped out of the Tovver of London, getting ouer clearely vvithout any empeachment into France.”

4. (figuratively)Dull; lazy.

   “'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly.”

5. (figuratively)Quiet; without bustle or activity.

   “a sleepy English village”

   “Experts believe a pandemic welfare programme for poorer Brazilians has encouraged robbers to plan bold raids in sleepy regional cities where bank branches are storing more cash.”

   “Usually sleepy border crossings into Kazakhstan and Mongolia have also been overwhelmed by the sudden influx of Russians looking for a way out.”

   “Despite Horwich's international fame as a centre of railway engineering, Horwich station itself was usually quite a sleepy place.”

   “The meeting has put Pakistan at the center of the biggest story in the world, spotlighting its normally sleepy capital that has been preparing for days for high-profile delegations to arrive.”

noun

1. (in-plural, informal, uncountable)The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.

   “"Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall […]”

   “But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes […]”

2. (Australia, countable, uncountable)Shingleback.