micronap
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]micronap (plural micronaps)
- An extremely short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
Verb
[edit]micronap (third-person singular simple present micronaps, present participle micronapping, simple past and past participle micronapped)
- To have a micronap; to sleep for a very short period of time, especially during the day.
- 2019, Lauren Sams, Crazy Busy Guilty[1]:
- I'd manage to put her down for her morning nap without a struggle, but as soon as I crossed the threshold of the door, she'd be wide awake, as if she'd successfully micronapped for, oh, point-ten-of-a-second and didn't need to sleep any.