daymare

noun
/ˈdeɪˌmɛə/UK/ˈdeɪˌmɛɚ/US

Etymology

From day + mare, after nightmare.

  1. inherited from *márkos — “horse
  2. inherited from *marhijō — “female horse
  3. inherited from *marhijā
  4. inherited from mīere — “female horse, mare
  5. inherited from mare
  6. compounded as daymare — “day + mare

Definitions

  1. A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during…

    A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness.

    • Sometimes I can't help but feel helpless / I'm havin' daymares in daytime wide awake try to relate / This can't be happenin' like I'm in a dream while I'm walkin' / Cause what I'm seein is hauntin', human beings like ghost and zombies
    • “Bobbie Nell, that bird just wants to get out of your house. He's trapped in a bird nightmare.” “You're all nightmares! And I'm about to be your nightmare and your daymare.”
  2. To have a daymare.

    • There must be something better to spend my precious time daymaring.
    • She daymared through each one, painting dark, almost black canvases with indistinguishable figures floating in a stormy sky.
    • Instead he’s daymaring the burning sandy wastes of southern Iraq – the unknowable concrete-and-mud-brick towns and forgotten bazaars where the Rams could well lose themselves … in a wilderness of dust.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA