Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A feeling resembling that experienced in nightmare, but felt while awake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
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- noun A
terrifying experience , having the characteristics of anightmare , duringwakefulness
Etymologies
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Examples
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a kind of daymare, if there is a state of mind which can be so described, and I had a good deal to say to Murray, as we walked down to the Parks together, about my luck.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904
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The “daymare” brought me to an open field that I was crossing to the wooded area beyond.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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The “daymare” brought me to an open field that I was crossing to the wooded area beyond.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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When it did finally did end and all of the events and information I ingested from that cinematic daymare washed over me I realized that I had just lost 90 minutes of my life that I can never get back.
What Had Happened Was...AKA Dartflix Edition #35 Dart Adams 2008
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I've just had a daymare of roaming thru Thetford forest with a petrol driven strimmer!
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What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlour, 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!
David Copperfield 2007
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And after I wrote that, I had a daymare of seeping, crushing cold innocence rising up from Fort Lauderdale oddly, it's grey with bright purple spots and slowly, implacably crushing all in its way...only to go about 1 tenth of a mile before getting distracted by some of Broward County's more fun sex stores, immediately putting on some nice red stuff and shrivelling up with all of the corruption, unable to resist.
Another randomness post: mariness 2007
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I'm still a little fuzzy, and there are piles of papers on my desk (an anal-retentive's daymare); hence, the delay between our regular post and the RDA.
12.03 M-mv 2003
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I'm still a little fuzzy, and there are piles of papers on my desk (an anal-retentive's daymare); hence, the delay between our regular post and the RDA.
12.03 M-mv 2003
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I'm still a little fuzzy, and there are piles of papers on my desk (an anal-retentive's daymare); hence, the delay between our regular post and the RDA.
Archive 2003-12-01 M-mv 2003
sionnach commented on the word daymare
We call these nightstallions where I come from.
December 29, 2008