dreamy Daniel

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly an allusion to the biblical Daniel, who interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar II.

Noun[edit]

dreamy Daniel (plural dreamy Daniels)

  1. (informal) A person who is inclined to daydream.
    • 1940, Jack Hilton, English Ways: A Walk from the Pennines to Epsom Downs in 1939, page 177:
      They cannot be dreamy Daniels, they cannot be spasmodic — gallop one half-hour, and slacken the next.
    • 2019, Ian Higgins, Bipolar: Living With It: Manic Depressive Memoirs:
      Mum sometimes accused me of being a “dreamy Daniel”, which I was.
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