浮うき寝ね

noun

sleeping in a ship

Literally sleeping aboard a vessel, often with a sense of floating on the water.

• 船ふな旅たびでは、波なみの揺ゆれを感かんじながらの浮うき寝ねも悪わるくない。

  On a ship journey, sleeping while feeling the rocking of the waves isn't so bad.

noun

sleeping on the water's surface (of a bird)

Describes waterfowl resting while floating.

• 鴨かもが池いけの上うえで浮うき寝ねをしている。

  Ducks are sleeping on the surface of the pond.

noun

restless sleep

Sleep that is light and easily disturbed, as if floating.

• 心しん配ぱい事ごとがあって、昨さく夜やは浮うき寝ねだった。

  With worries on my mind, I had a restless sleep last night.

noun

casually sleeping together (e.g. unmarried couple)

Implies an informal, possibly transient co-sleeping arrangement, often with romantic or sexual connotations.

• 昔むかしの物もの語がたりには、未み婚こんの男だん女じょの浮うき寝ねが描えがかれることがある。

  In old tales, unmarried men and women casually sleeping together is sometimes depicted.