ˈsleep-walker
[sleep n. 7.]
One who walks while asleep; a somnambulist.
| 1747 Gentl. Mag. XVII. Index, Sleep-walker, strange action of. 1794 Sporting Mag. IV. 106 A Sleep-walker and Sleep-talker perambulated and muttered. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea iii. 38 Your life is like the adventure of a sleep-walker. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. vii. 198 The popular notion that sleep-walkers never hurt themselves is far from true. |
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ˈsleep-walking vbl. n. and ppl. a.| (a) 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 534/2 A lad..subject to that singular affection or disease called Somnambulism or sleep-walking. 1855 Emerson Misc. 90 For they aspire to the highest, and this, in their sleep-walking, they dream is highest. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 157 Neuroses, such as headaches, night-terrors, sleep-walking or defect of self-control, should be noted. |
| (b) 1842 Lytton Zanoni vi. vi, Sleep-walking yet awake. 1890 Spectator 3 May, He seems to let the waking or sleep-walking Prince come in under protest. |