sleepwrite

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verb

To write in one's sleep.

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Meanings

verbsleepwrite (third-person singular simple present sleepwrites, present participle sleepwriting, simple past sleepwrote, past participle sleepwritten)

present singular third person sleepwrites · participle present sleepwriting · past sleepwrote · participle past sleepwritten

  1. rareTo write in one's sleep.

    What a pity one cannot sleepwrite on the ceiling with one's finger or lifted toe.

    1984, Denton Welch, Michael De-la-Noy, The journals of Denton Welch, page 260
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    At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think.

    1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5

Origin

From sleep + write.

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