daymare

daymare

(ˈdeɪˌmɛə)
n
an unpleasant experience one has when not asleep
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day•mare

(ˈdeɪˌmɛər)

n.
a distressing experience, similar to a bad dream, occurring while one is awake.
[1730–40; day + (night) mare]
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References in classic literature ?
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!
At school they play bat-minton, the new teacher's name is Dr Acula, his dad works the graveyard shift at the local blood bank and there are events described as 'every vampire's worst daymare'.
Opinions vary about this satirical fantasy from Alexander Payne, a sci-fi daymare about a world in which it is scientifically possible to reduce yourself to the size of a matchbox.
chains, the daymare of rolling over And then who would water the
It is very common that the temperature approaches 50C in the day, making it a nightmare (I mean a daymare) to drive during the peak of the day, as one feels the skin literally burning.
His best-known games are Submachine, Daymare Town and 10 Gnomes.
Well, crummy Kyle - ITV's monstrous morning motormouth - delivers a dismal guttertrawling show that you might call a daymare.
The real "daymare" is actually more bleak than my fanciful nightmare.
However--Does not Science tell us that every dream is a Baggie, hidden away in the cluttered reaches of our mental refrigerators, stuffed with moldering Truth?--there is reason for the author's daymare. There is a Surf-'n'-Sun Sale at the local female chandlery, and his wife has gone there with car and charge plate to buy a bikini.
When shall we awaken from the sick and sickening 'daymare' and bad dream that is the error-ridden sick book?
Included in the silly shows we shamefacedly patronize are programs that crudely and blatantly appeal to our unselective readiness to get scared out of our skulls by fears and terrors that almost always turn out to be-childish 'daymares' with no real danger to them.