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English
Etymology
From Middle English slombere, slomerer, slummerare, equivalent to slumber + -er.
Noun
slumberer (plural slumberers)
- One who slumbers; a sleeper.
1633, John Donne, “The Progress of the Soul. Metempsychosis”, in John Carey, editor, John Donne: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, published 1990, First Song, Stanza XV, 141-6, p. 75:His right arm he thrust out towards the east, / Westward his left; th' ends did themselves digest / Into ten lesser strings, these fingers were: / And as a slumberer stretching on his bed, / This way he this, and that way scattered / His other leg, which feet with toes upbear;
1955, Martin Buber, translated by Maurice Friedman, The Legend of the Baal-Shem, London: Routledge, published 2002, page 148:There lay the houses in the dawn light with closed window-shutters, like joyless slumberers with heavy lids.
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