daymare

plural daymares

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

   “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.”

   2020 September 27, Christy Stratton & Jeremy Rowley, “Violet's Secret” (5:10 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Bobbie-Nell (Fortune Feimster)

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   What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlor, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it, everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them!

   1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “My Holidays. Especially One Happy Afternoon.”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 87

   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

   2005, “Road to Zion”, in Welcome to Jamrock, performed by Damian Marley ft. Nas

present singular third person daymares · participle present daymaring · participle past daymared · past daymared

1. intransitivetransitiveTo have a daymare.

   There must be something better to spend my precious time daymaring.

   2003, Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, page 322

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   She daymared through each one, painting dark, almost black canvases with indistinguishable figures floating in a stormy sky.

   2007, Michele Zackheim, Broken Colors, Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 41

   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.

   2017, Will Self, Phone, Viking, →ISBN