flightmare

An unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.

Noun

  1. An unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.
    • She glanced, for the first time since this flightmare started, to the man sitting in the aisle seat beside her. - 2011, Joe Shrader, Eden Falls, page 118:
    • I was so grateful to see my children that day, and even Jake was a sight for sore eyes after the “flightmare” from hell. - 2015, Mary Helen Hensley, Promised by Heaven:
    • The flightmare continues as I elbow my way through chuckleheads in pleated khakis or gamey business suits with phones clipped to their belts, parents who are wrangling several unruly kids hopped up on M&Ms, and reunited...
  2. A type of dragon with poisonous breath that feeds on luminous algae.
    • Flames like flightmare algae hidden within the enclaves of a kaleidoscope illusion, a gateway into the god's secret treasure chest. - 2020, Gaston D. Cox, Aurea Mediocritas: A Book of Short Stories:

Origin

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

Forms

flightmares flight-mare