yawny

[ yaw-nee ]

adjective,yawn·i·er, yawn·i·est.

Origin of yawny

First recorded in 1795–1805; yawn + -y¹

Instinctively with his first yawny return to consciousness he reached back under his pillow for Cornelia's letter.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
But shortly after midnight the giddy revellers begun to thin out and the girl waiters got yawny.
Torchy As A Pa | Sewell Ford
They were all yawny, and some were grumpy, but I had washed my being in the sunrise and felt as blithesome as the day.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 | Lucy Maud Montgomery

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