Meaning

1 senses

  1. (archaic, dialectal)A workday.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The hedge, in point of fact, is the main shelter and asylum for beasties great and small in our workaday England.

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Origin

Middle English werkedei, from Old Norse virkr dagr (“working day”). Cognate to later workd

Middle English werkedei, from Old Norse virkr dagr (“working day”). Cognate to later workday; see work and day. Used in adjective sense from 16th century. By surface analysis, work + -a- + day. First attested in c. 1200.

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Forms

plural: workadays
Singularworkaday
Pluralworkadays

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wordyworkA1workableworkaholicB2workbenchB2workbook

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