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Etymology

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From day +‎ mare, after nightmare.[1]

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Noun

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daymare (plural daymares)

  1. A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness.
    • 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:
      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!
    • 2005, “Road to Zion”, in Welcome to Jamrock, performed by Damian Marley ft. Nas:
      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
    • 2020 September 27, Christy Stratton & Jeremy Rowley, “Violet's Secret” (5:10 from the start), in Bless the Harts[1], season 2, episode 1, spoken by Bobbie-Nell (Fortune Feimster):
      “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.”

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Verb

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daymare (third-person singular simple present daymares, present participle daymaring, simple past and past participle daymared)

  1. To have a daymare.

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  1. ^ daymare, n.”, in OED Online  , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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