sleepeatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

sleepeat (三人称単数 現在形 sleepeats, 現在分詞 sleepeating, 過去形 sleepate, 過去分詞 sleepeaten)

1. Alternative form of sleep-eat
   • 1999, John Money, The Lovemap Guidebook: A Definitive Statement, ISBN 0826412033, page 144:

     In addition, there were also episodes of sleepwalking, sometimes aimlessly, and sometimes in connection with sleepeating when he would go to the kitchen and snack on readily available food.

   • 2008, V. Mark Durand, When Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0190450126, [1]:

     Based on the results of the Albany Sleep Problems Scale (ASPS), you should discuss whether the child is experiencing sleepwalking (または related events such as sleeptalking または sleepeating), sleeping at the wrong times, or excessive sleepiness.

   • 2013, Ryan Neumann, What Had Happened, ISBN 1300576316, [2]:

     Damn it, sleepwalking again. Well hold on a sec (glance down at the counter), make that sleepeating too.

語源

From sleep +‎ eat; based on pattern of earlier sleepwalk.

動詞

sleep-eat (三人称単数 現在形 sleep-eats, 現在分詞 sleep-eating, 過去形 sleep-ate, 過去分詞 sleep-eaten)

1. To eat in one's sleep; to eat while asleep.
   • 2008, Don H. Hockenbury, ‎Sandra E. Hockenbury, Psychology, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 165:

     Females are more than twice as likely as males to sleep-eat.

   • 2014, Stephan Eirik Clark, Sweetness #9, →ISBN, [1]:

     "He's not the only one who needs it. Mom's been sleep-eating." "What? What do you mean?" I listened in disbelief as she said she'd come out into the kitchen no fewer than three times in the last couple of months and seen Betty with her hand in the breadbox.

   • 2015, Himender Makker, ‎Matthew Walker, ‎Hugh Selsick, Oxford Case Histories in Sleep Medicine, →ISBN, [2]:

     Topiramate has been described as being particularly efficacious in people who sleep-eat as their non-REM parasomnia.

   • 2015, Kelly Carlin, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, [3]:

     Because he was diabetic he'd sleep-eat in bed.

   • 2016, Dima Zales, ‎Anna Zaires, Limbo: The Last Humans: Book 2, Mozaika Publications, →ISBN, [4]:

     I must've done what Liam used to do as a kid: sleep-eat in the middle of the night and deny it in the morning.

   • 2016, Kathie Johnson, The First Storm, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, [5]:

     Recent studies showed that some patients experienced sleep-eating, where they would dream about food and in their drugged-induced coma, they would actually get up to prepare a meal.

アナグラム

• sleep-ate, sleepate