Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A person who habitually stays up and is active late into the night.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An owl of notably or exclusively nocturnal habits. All owls are nocturnal, but some less so than others, and night-owl is used in contrast to day-owl.
Wiktionary
- n. idiomatic One who stays up late at night or goes to bed late.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who likes to be active late at night.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who likes to be active late at night
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘night owl’.
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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-ight
light, night, wight, hight, knight, fight, bright, right, fright, bight, eight, might and 174 more...
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Bedaphors
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sleepyhypnagogic, chronotherapy, clinomania, condorm, librocubicularist, matutolypea, soporific, supine, decubitus, pandiculation, oscitancy, slugabed and 169 more...
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Noah's Park
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sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
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Wirds of a Feather
Phrases and figures of speech in which birds are featured. Or feathers. Or such like.
a little bird tol..., to have an albatr..., birds of a feathe..., in the catbird seat, cold turkey, to cook one's goose, don't count your ..., to have one's duc..., to eat crow, a feather in one'..., for the birds, flip the bird and 122 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Animalia Wordia
Words or short phrases with animal names in them. Since I already have a dedicated list for 'monkey' words I shall leave them out of this one for the moment.
paper tiger, pigeon-hearted, lion-hearted, sacred cow, chicken heart, fraidy cat, scaredy-cat, snake oil, can of worms, snake pit, rat's nest, stool pigeon and 114 more...
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les nuits
nocturne, hum, solace, covert, you pale moon, cradlesong, berceuse, sloom, opulent, night owl, lull, darling and 24 more...
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reesetee Yep, this phrase always bugged me a little too. :-) But there are diurnal owls, the Snowy Owl being one of the best known. Sep 16, 2008
bilby What's the opposite of night owl, rt? Sep 16, 2008