Yawn

Yawn

A yawn is a reflex of simultaneous inhalation of air and stretching of the eardrums, followed by exhalation of breath. Pandiculation is the act of yawning and stretching simultaneously.

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Famous quotes containing the word yawn:

    “My wife, my wife! what wife? I have no wife.
    O insupportable! O heavy hour!
    Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
    Of sun and moon, and that th’ affrighted globe
    Should yawn at alteration.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
    Come once a day to suffocate the sight.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)