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yawner

[ yaw-ner ]

noun

  1. a person who yawns.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yawner1

First recorded in 1680–90; yawn + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Typically, precinct meetings were “a yawner,” according to Mike Connett, a longtime party member in Horry County, best known for its popular beach towns.

Lions that caught a yawn from another lion were 11 times as likely to mirror the movements of the original yawner than those that hadn’t.

What should have been a passionate clash about unemployment and economic growth turned out to be a boring, abstract yawner.

If he attempts to take some of our big banked bullfinches in his stride, with a yawner on each side, will get into grief.'

Some were busy at arithmetic, while, every moment, whack went the rod upon the crown of the idler or yawner.

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