morningmare

English

Etymology

Blend of morning +‎ nightmare

Noun

morningmare (plural morningmares)

1. (rare, humorous) A nightmare experience in the morning.
   • 1997, Anna Collins, Elliot Sullivan, Women Are from Bras, Men Are from Penus: A Survival Guide for Bypassing Communication and Getting Even in Your Relationships, page 27:

     What a nightmare! Or morningmare, in this case.

   • 2008, Gary Diehl, Those Were the Days: Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and.., page 124:

     My skin had goosebumps and my hands were damp and cold. I prayed I would never again be troubled by that—morningmare.

   • 1999 November 25, Les Hellawell, “Re: Nightmare on the M1 - WARNING: thread convergence link to new thread drift”, in uk.local.yorkshire‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2011-09-08:

     Talking of nightmares on the M1, we went to York this morning to see the St.Nik. fair. We caught the 8.08 from New Pudsey and had to stand in a packed carriage as far as Leeds. Do people actually do this every day? What a morningmare!