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flightmare

noun

Etymology

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

  1. inherited from *nihtmare✻
  2. inherited from nyghtmare
  3. compounded as flightmare — “flight + nightmare”

Definitions

  1. An unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.

    • She glanced, for the first time since this flightmare started, to the man sitting in the aisle seat beside her.
    • I was so grateful to see my children that day, and even Jake was a sight for sore eyes after the “flightmare” from hell.

  2. A type of dragon with poisonous breath that feeds on luminous algae.

    • Flames like flightmare algae hidden within the enclaves of a kaleidoscope illusion, a gateway into the god's secret treasure chest.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for flightmare. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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