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nounsleeptalker (plural sleeptalkers)
plural sleeptalkers
- A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.
Often they will wake when their sleeptalking startles another person, who then makes a noise at being woken up, waking the sleeptalker to ask the other "What's wrong?"
2008, Christian Jarrett, Joannah Ginsburg, This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology, Continuum, →ISBN, page 141Synonyms: somniloquist
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nounA person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.
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From sleep + talker or sleeptalk + -er.
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