Meanings
plural dreamy Daniels
- informalA person who is inclined to daydream.
Mum sometimes accused me of being a “dreamy Daniel”, which I was.
2019, Ian Higgins, Bipolar: Living With It: Manic Depressive Memoirs1 more example
They cannot be dreamy Daniels, they cannot be spasmodic — gallop one half-hour, and slacken the next.
1940, Jack Hilton, English Ways: A Walk from the Pennines to Epsom Downs in 1939, page 177Synonyms: absent-minded professor
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who is inclined to daydream.
Origin
Chosen for the alliteration and also possibly as an allusion to the biblical Daniel, who interpreted a dream of king Nebuchadnezzar II.
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