单词 | mondayishness |
释义 | Mondayishnessn. The quality of feeling produced by Mondays. Originally of a clergyman: an indisposition or lethargy, caused by the work of Sunday (now rare). Subsequently also more widely: the lethargy or disinclination resulting from a busy or eventful weekend or from having to resume work after the weekend. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] accidiaOE accidie?c1225 lethargyc1380 faintness1398 lithernessc1425 listlesshedec1440 owlisthead1440 supinity1548 lustlessness1556 benumbedness1566 phlegm1578 apoplexy1589 acedia1607 torpor1607 drowsiness1611 torpidity1614 languishmentc1620 hebetude1621 acedy1623 inerty1623 supineness1640 listlessness1646 cadaveriety1651 inertitude1656 oscitation1656 torpulency1657 sopor1658 phlegmaticness1659 lethargicalness1664 torpidnessa1676 faineantisea1684 phlegmatism1688 vis inertiae1710 torpitude1713 moonery1764 donothingness1814 benumbment1817 inertia1821 languor1825 donothingism1839 Mondayishness1850 mooniness1852 mooning1857 fainéantisme1873 sog1874 Oblomovism1902 1850 G. Gilfillan Let. in R. A. Watson & E. S. Watson Gilfillan's Lett. & Jrnls. (1892) 145 Your letter has cheered my ‘Mondayishness’. 1884 Congregationalist Apr. 320 There is a disease, only known among ministers, of Mondayishness. 1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 1 Apr. 6/4 But there was occasionally a tired edge to his voice. It may have been ‘Mondayishness’, or a cold. 1993 Guardian Weekly 1 Aug. 28 The corny quality and the mondayishness of her writing..the duff lines from songs, the murderous moments in the cashpoint queue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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