mid-nightmare

See also: midnightmare

English

Etymology

Fron mid- +‎ nightmare.

Adverb

mid-nightmare (not comparable)

1. (temporal location) During a nightmare.
   • 2006, Marion Lennox, Princess of Convenience, page 82:

     His eyes were wide and scared, as if he'd woken mid-nightmare.

Alternative forms

• midnightmare

Noun

mid-nightmare (uncountable)

1. The middle part of a nightmare, by implication the scariest part, with no end in prospect; the state of being in a nightmare.
   • 1904, The Spectator, volume 92, page 537:

     […] carries us into the region of mid-nightmare, […] .

   • 2008, Rosalyn Wraight, Secrets and Sins, page 84:

     Many times, I have seen your name in the paper— the detective who solves the mysteries in this sleepy little city that sometimes awakens in mid-nightmare.

   • 2009, Derek Ciccone, Painless, page 241:

     Beth awoke Monday morning in mid-nightmare.