单词 | sundayish |
释义 | Sundayishadj. Characteristic or reminiscent of Sunday, esp. quiet, slow, languorous. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adjective] easyc1385 leisurable1607 vacant1615 leisured1631 leisure1669 sauntry1732 Sundayish1797 sauntering1818 toilless1848 off-duty1851 Sundayfied1899 non-work1922 spare-time1931 non-job1932 1797 R. Gurney in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys of Earlham (1895) I. 70 [The day] was flat, stupid, unimproving, and Sundayish. 1895 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 814/1 My mood was less Sundayish than before, and in spite of the heat I ventured across an open pasture,—where a Bachman's finch was singing an ingenious set of variations. 1911 W. W. Jacobs Ship's Company 1 Mr. Jobson awoke with a Sundayish feeling, probably due to the fact that it was Bank Holiday. 1998 A. Martin Bilton iv. 38 Bilton inhabited a thin, falling-down terraced house next to an expanse of spooky scrubland in a grimy part of East London... There was a dismal Sunday-ish feel about the place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1797 |
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