Yawn Jɔːn Noun Bre Stifled Hard Interested Meeting
Word
yawn
WordType
(noun)
Phonetic
BrE / jɔːn / NAmE / jɔːn /
Example
she stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
the meeting was one big yawn from start to finish.
he struggled to stifle a yawn.
he tried to conceal his yawn behind his hand.
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yawn
(noun)BrE / jɔːn / NAmE / jɔːn /
an act of yawning
She stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
a boring event, idea, etc.
The meeting was one big yawn from start to finish.
Extra Examples
He struggled to stifle a yawn.
He tried to conceal his yawn behind his hand.
The little boy gave a huge yawn.
The speech was greeted with a collective yawn from the press gallery.
Word Origin
Old English geonian, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hiare and Greek khainein. Current noun senses date from the early 18th cent.
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