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drowsy, a.|ˈdraʊzɪ|
Also (6 drawsy, drusye), 6–8 drousy, 7–8 drouzy, drowzy.
[Found in first half of the 16th c.; no corresponding ME. or OE. form is recorded: it is however probably related to OE. drúsian: see drowse v.]
1. Inclined to sleep, esp. at a time when one wishes, or ought, to be awake; heavy with sleepiness; half asleep, dozing.
1530Palsgr. 311/1 Drowsy, heavy for slepe or onlusty, pesant. 1591Florio 2nd Fruites 3, N. Me think you are very drowsie still. T. I am not very well awaked yet. 1648Gage West Ind. xvii. 113 It made mee more drowsie at night. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 446 Drowsy they rose, with heavy fumes opprest. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xviii, A drowsy watchman's footsteps sounded on the pavement. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, I am very tired and drowsy.
2. Caused or characterized by sleepiness or inactivity.
a1529Skelton El. Rumming 15 Her lothy leere is..ugly of cheere, droupy and drowsie. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 46 b, Pour rose oyl and vinegre vpon them that haue the drawsy or forgetfull euel. 1562― Baths 8 b, Diseases of the heade, as are the drusye euill. 1655Culpepper Riverius i. ii. 9 Drouzie Diseases, called Coma, Lethargy, Carus, and Apoplexy. 1727–38Gay Fables ii. xiii. 68 Till drousy sleep retard the glass. 1870Dickens E. Drood i, Some..period of drowsy laughter.
3. Inducing sleepiness; lulling; soporific.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iii. 1 [He] vprose from drowsie couch. c1617Middleton Witch iv. iii, I spic'd them..with a drowsy posset, They will not hear. 1706Addison Rosamond iii. iii, The bowl, with drowsie juices fill'd. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 3 That potent and drowsy spell, which still prevails over the valley.
4. fig. Heavy, dull, inactive; sluggish, lethargic.
1570Levins Manip. 108 Drowsie, deses. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. i. iii. 5 In whose drousie minds the divell hath goten a fine Seat. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 399 The dead and drowsie fier. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb x. §140 The drowsy, dull Presbyterian humour of Fairfax. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 178 ⁋14 A drowsy thoughtlessness or a giddy levity. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 467 Sinking into a servile, sensual, drowsy parasite.
5. Comb., as drowsy-head, a person of a sleepy or sluggish disposition; drowsy-headed, drowsy-flighted adjs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 354 The drowsie headed lubber. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 269 Slothfull drousiheades are..an vnprofitable lumpe of vnoccupied earth. 1634Milton Comus 551 The drowsy-flighted steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained sleep. 1834Moir in Blackw. Mag. XXXV. 708 The drowsyhead, man, on his bed slumbers prone. |