sandman
Kelime Anlamı :

1. çocukların gözlerine kum serperek uykularını getirdiği varsayılan peri.
2. uyku perisi.
3. çocukların gözlerine kum serpmekle uykularını getirdiği farzolunan peri.
4. sand.men (sänd'men).
5. kum adam.
6. (isim) uyku perisi.
Tanımlar :
1. A character in fairy tales and folklore who makes children go to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A legendary figure who is said to bring good sleep and dreams by placing sand in the eyes.
2. used as a symbol of the passage of time to death.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A fabulous person who is supposed to make children sleepy: probably so called in allusion to the rubbing of their eyes when sleepy, as if to rub out particles of sand.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.