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- sigh for
sigh for
sigh for someone
to release a deep breath, indicating anxiety about one's emotional attachment for someone. Dave spent a lot of his time sighing for Laura, on whom he had a crush. Laura has been sighing for some as-yet-unnamed young man.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Roksana | | rawk-SAH-nah (Polish) | Russian, Polish |
Ranjeet | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali |
'Ashtoret | | - | Biblical Hebrew, Near Eastern Mythology |
Josiah | | [dʒəu'saiə] | |
Tue | | - | Danish |
Paul | | [pɔ:l] | |