How do you pronounce shut-eye?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃʌtaɪ/.

shut-eye

/ˈʃʌtaɪ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English

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noun

Informal; Uncountable

"With the night so quiet and peaceful, though, there was nothing he could do except return to camp and try to get a little shut-eye himself."
"To make matters worse, he sorely needs some shut-eye. “Not to get into it, but I’m not a great sleeper,” he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee."

From shut + eye.

shuteye (alternative)

hiemation hibernation repose

How to pronounce shut-eye

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