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Definition of Sleepy dick

1. Noun. Common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States.

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Literary usage of Sleepy dick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How to Get Strong and how to Stay So by William Blaikie (1879)
"At last he came up with " sleepy dick " on Second Avenue yesterday. '"The jig's up, Sleepy,' said the detective; ' you're wanted.' "' What for ? ..."

2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"... morn— *> When nimble noises that with sunrise ran About the farms have sunk again to rest; When Tom no more across the horse-lot calls To sleepy Dick, ..."

3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"... When Tom no more across the horse-lot calls To sleepy Dick, nor Dick husk-voiced upbraids The sway-back'd roan for stamping on his foot With sulphurous ..."

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