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night owl
[ nahyt oul ]
noun
- a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
night owl
noun
- informal.a person who is or prefers to be up and about late at night
Word History and Origins
Origin of night owl1
Idioms and Phrases
A person who habitually stays up late and is active at night, as in You can call her after midnight, for she's a night owl . This colloquial term, originally used in the late 1500s for an owl that is active at night, was transferred to nocturnal human beings in the mid-1800s.Example Sentences
The new album’s title may hint at sunshine and waking hours, but make no mistake, Yoakam is a night owl, a man for whom work begins around dusk and often stretches into dawn.
I’m a huge night owl and I stay up until 2 in the morning watching TV shows and movies.
Fortunately, the moon will set around midnight in Southern California, removing that lunar pollution for night owls.
Among human beings, it's a familiar phenomenon: early birds rarely turn into night owls, and vice versa.
Rick Miramontez is both a night owl and an early bird.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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