napbrittle
/ˈnæpˌbrɪtəl/adjectiveVerified NewAlso in: schlafbrüchig (Deutsch) · siestefrágil (Español) · siestefrêle (Français)
Brittle from a nap that went wrong — the specific fragility of the bad-nap afternoon.
The napbrittle person snaps at the question, cannot hold a thought, and feels the afternoon as a thin sheet of glass. The nap was supposed to repair; it broke something instead, and the brittleness lasts until the real night, which is now suspected of being a trick.
Etym. — nap + brittle — the material metaphor for the bad nap's fragility; brittle is exactly the state of breaking under small stress.
Rel. — naproulette
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