The word daycation has been around for the last couple of years or so, popping up in the context of observations on the recent decline in taking conventional week or two-week-long holidays. The same trend also recently spawned the related term BROKEN! (target document not found): staycation (a holiday based from home), though the two words are not entirely synonymous: a daycation refers specifically to a day out, whereas a staycation may incorporate days at home, resting and sitting in the garden, etc. Both words are of course new blends based on the word vacation, and, following its usage in American English, may be used as both nouns and intransitive verbs. Other recent coinages on the same theme include greycation – a holiday which includes grandparents who conveniently share the costs involved, and the tongue-in-cheek naycation – time away from work which doesn’t involve travelling or spending money on leisure activities (nay is an old-fashioned word meaning ‘no’ or ‘not’).

The word daycation has been around for the last couple of years or so, popping up in the context of observations on the recent decline in taking conventional week or two-week-long holidays. The same trend also recently spawned the related term staycation (a holiday based from home), though the two words are not entirely synonymous: a daycation refers specifically to a day out, whereas a staycation may incorporate days at home, resting and sitting in the garden, etc. Both words are of course new blends based on the word vacation, and, following its usage in American English, may be used as both nouns and intransitive verbs. Other recent coinages on the same theme include greycation – a holiday which includes grandparents who conveniently share the costs involved, and the tongue-in-cheek naycation – time away from work which doesn’t involve travelling or spending money on leisure activities (nay is an old-fashioned word meaning ‘no’ or ‘not’).