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ˈworking(-)ˌday
(Also 6 warkynday, 6–7 workenday.)
[f. working vbl. n. + day n.1]
1. a. A work-day.
1478Paston Lett. III. 237 A hose clothe, one for the halydays..and a nothyr for the workyng days. 1538in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Crt. Admiralty (1894) I. 62 The said John Halmdry shalbe dyscharged and his shyp of the sayd salt..within vj lawfull workyng dayes. 1549W. Thomas Hist. Italie 79 Euerie holidaie, and many times the workendaies, the same sitteth from diner till nyght. 1561Bp. J. Parkhurst Injunct. A ij b, That they baptize not children on the wourking daies. 1626in Cheque-bk. Chapel Royal (Camden) 71 That a competent number of the gentlemen be appointed to attend the service uppon the workinge dayes throughout the yeare. 1671–2in C. Worthy Devon. Wills (1896) 27 My blew coat which I did weare worken dayes. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 340 They quite forgot the days, and knew not a Sunday from a working-day any longer. 1832Sir F. Palgrave Rise & Progr. Eng. Commw. ii. p. clii, The first open or working day after the two great weekly festivals of Sun-day and Moon-day. 1839Thackeray Fatal Boots Feb., Then comes dismal February, and the working-days with it,..after the Christmas and the New Year's heyday and merry-making are over. 1911Onions Shaks. Gloss. p. vi, The compilation of which has occupied the full working-days of a year and a half.
b. attrib. or as adj. (= workaday B.), as working-day clothes, working-day dress, working-day face, working-day world.
1533in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 26 A roond warkynday gownd. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 25 Our shepheard must put on his working day face, and frame nought but dolefull Madrigalls. 1594Greene & Lodge Looking Gl. (1598) C 4, If you heard her working-day words,..they be ratlers like thunder. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. iii. 12 Oh how full of briers is this working day world. 1683in Bedfordshire N. & Q. (1889) II. 237 All my working-day clothes of wollen or stuffe. 1835Landon Misc. Poet. Wks. 2 The working-day portion of life's wondrous whole. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xliv, The working-day faces come nearer to the truth. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. lvi, The working-day world. 1873Newman Serm. Var. Occas. (1881) xiv. 275 The working-day dress.
2. The portion of a day devoted to work or allotted to labour as a day's work.
1853Hogg's Instructor X. 282/2 To grant the Saturday afternoon holiday, and to limit the duration of every other working day within a certain definite period of time, not exceeding twelve hours, including the proper interval for meals. 1875J. Macdonell in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 389 Leaving the length of the working day unchanged. 1890J. E. C. Munro in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 472 The more rational proposals to establish a short working day. |