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wideawake en · NOUN

Etymology

* From wide awake. * (hat): From a pun in Punch magazine, relating to the fact that the hat had no nap.

Meanings

1. A bird, the sooty tern.
2. (historical) A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
   • 1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884). "He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake, and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage windows as the train rolled up."
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories" Wisps of white hair straggled from under his wideawake […]

Forms

Synonyms

wideawake hat

Translations (1)

mi wairaweki (A type of hat, with a broad brim made of black or brown felt)