Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To yawn; gape with sleepiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To gape; to yawn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
gape ; toyawn .
Etymologies
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Latin oscitare; os the mouth + citare, v. intens. from ciere to move.
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