sleep-eat

verb

Etymology

From sleep + eat; by analogy of sleepwalk.

  1. inherited from *h₁édti✻
  2. inherited from *etaną✻ — “to eat”
  3. inherited from *etan✻
  4. inherited from etan — “to eat”
  5. inherited from eten
  6. compounded as sleep-eat — “sleep + eat”

Definitions

  1. To eat in one's sleep

    To eat in one's sleep; to eat while asleep.

    • Females are more than twice as likely as males to sleep-eat.
    • Topiramate has been described as being particularly efficacious in people who sleep-eat as their non-REM parasomnia.

The neighborhood

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