yawner

yawn  (yôn)

v. yawned, yawn·ing, yawns

v.intr.

1. To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom.

2. To open wide; gape: The chasm yawned at our feet.

v.tr.

To utter wearily, while or as if while yawning: yawned his disapproval of the silly venture.

n.

1. The act of yawning.

2. A fatigued or bored response.

3. Informal One that provokes yawns; a bore: The movie was nothing more than one big yawn.

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[Middle English yanen, alteration of yonen, yenen, from Old English geonian.]

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yawner n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

yawner - a person who yawns individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"