somniloquist

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English

Etymology

From somniloquy +‎ -ist.

Noun

somniloquist (plural somniloquists)

  1. A person who talks in his/her sleep.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 355:
      He drooled incessantly, alternately moaning and cursing in a low somniloquist's voice

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