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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
broad awake en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) wide awake
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VII
The felon Rufus Dawes had stretched himself in his bunk and tried to sleep. But though he was tired and sore, and his head felt like lead, he could not but keep broad awake.
Ah, that is kind, dear mother; and see now
How broad awake I am, and how so smart
I'm finishing my work since you relate
These pretty tales.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 90: