lack-a-dayint.
/ˈlakədeɪ/, U.S. /ˈlækəˌdeɪ/ Obsolete or archaic.
= alack int.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection]
ahaa1400
ocha1522
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
gossea1556
ay me!1591
o (also oh) rare!1596
law1598
strangec1670
lack-a-day1695
stap my vitals1697
alackaday1705
prodigious1707
my word1722
(by) golly1743
gosh1757
Dear me!1805
Madre de Dios1815
Great Jove!1819
I snum1825
crikey1826
my eye1826
crackey1830
snakes1839
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
whoops1870
this beats my grandmother1883
wow1892
great balls of fire1893
oo-er1909
zowiec1913
crimes1929
yowa1943
wowee1963
Madre mia!1964
yikes1971
whee1978
chingas1984
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [interjection] > specific cry of grief
woeeOE
wellawayeOE
weilac1000
wellawayOE
wellaOE
woe is meOE
wummec1175
wia1200
outa1225
alas?c1225
walec1275
ac1300
whilec1402
ochonea1425
wellesay?1440
wannowec1450
helas1484
ah1509
ocha1522
ah me!a1547
wougha1556
eh1569
welladay1570
how1575
wellanear1581
ay me!1591
lasa1593
wella, welladay1601
good lack!1638
oime1660
pillaloo1663
wellanearing1683
lack-a-day1695
wasteheart1695
walya1724
lackadaisy1748
ochree1748
waesucks1773
well-a-winsa1774
ullagone1819
wirra1825
mavrone1827
wirrasthru1827
ototoi1877
wurra1898
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 18 Good lack-a-day, ha, ha, ha.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 189 Lack-a-Day, Sir, everything will be dwindled away to just nothing.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. ix. 80 Good-lack-a-day! why there now, who would have thought it! View more context for this quotation
1779 F. Burney Let. Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 416 I wish all the Cloth were like him,—but, lack a day! —'tis no such thing.
1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 455 Lackaday; they are gone every mother's son.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) xvi. 127 Ah, lack-a-day! it's a troublesome world!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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