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单词 welladay
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welladayv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: welladay int.
Etymology: < welladay int.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To cry ‘welladay’.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1835 J. Clare Rural Muse 153 The swains are sighing all, and well-a-daying.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

welladayint.n.

Brit. /ˈwɛlədeɪ/, U.S. /ˈwɛləˌdeɪ/
Forms:

α. 1500s waladay, 1500s wel aday, 1500s wellada, 1500s well a daye, 1500s (1800s English regional (Lancashire)) walladay, 1500s–1600s wel-aday, 1500s–1600s welladaie, 1500s–1800s weladay, 1500s– well-a-day, 1500s– welladay, 1600s wel-adaie, 1600s wela-day, 1600s welady, 1600s wele aday, 1600s weleaday, 1600s wella day, 1600s welladaye, 1600s welliday, 1600s welody, 1600s 1800s well a-day, 1600s–1800s well a day, 1700s wel-a-day, 1800s walla-day (English regional (Lancashire)); also Scottish pre-1700 wallod ay, pre-1700 1700s–1800s walladay, 1700s wail-a-day, 1700s wal-a-day, 1700s–1800s waladay, 1800s weel-a-day, 1800s– wally-dye.

β. 1500s weraday, 1500s wereaday, 1800s– werraday (English regional (Yorkshire and Derbyshire)), 1900s– werriday (English regional (Nottinghamshire)).

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: wellaway int.
Etymology: Alteration of wellaway int. with substitution of day n. for the ending, after e.g. alack the day at alack int. 2; compare e.g. woe worth the day at worth v.1 Phrases 2a(a), and also lack-a-day int.
A. int.
1. As an exclamation of sorrow or lamentation: ‘alas!’ Also preceded by ah or O. Now archaic and regional.Occasionally followed by a noun, with the sense ‘alas for——’, or a clause, with the sense ‘alas that’.
ΘΚΠ
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
1570 W. Elderton Newe Well a Daye (single sheet) Well a daye, well a daye, well a daye, woe is me.
1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I4 Ah (waladay) there is no end of paine.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. ii. 37 A weraday [1623 welady], hees dead, hees dead. View more context for this quotation
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 42 Oh wereaday [1623 weladay] that euer I was borne.
1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum xxxix. sig. B7v But walladay, he was not there aware, of Cupids shaft.
1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. E1 A welliday for my Cowe.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N3 Alack and welladay!
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. xiii. 105 Then quire of Boys and Ladies sighing Welody, With Hymns and Pæans making dolefull Melody.
1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 284 Alack and a welladay.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 161 Well-a-day, the title page was lost.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere ii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 14 Ah wel-a-day! [1805 well-a-day! 1817 well a-day!] what evil looks Had I from old and young.
1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 226 Well a day! Well a day! All he can say Is but just so much trouble and time thrown away.
1851 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales I. viii. 154 But, welladay, we hear a shrill voice of affliction.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Werraday, welladay.
1931 O. Nash Let. 8 Jan. in Loving Lett. (1990) 143 When I die sentimental tourists will weep over my grave and many hot dogs will be sold around it. Ah welladay. Don't you like the way I mingle humor and pathos?
1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor iii. xxi. 779 Welladay! Then this much, at least, sir: we'll have no profit in our bargain if John Coode murthers us.
1989 T. Tryon Night of Moonbow iv. vii. 286 ‘Welladay, welladay’, Pa said as he lowered himself onto the bench.
2. In wella, welladay; cf. wella int. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
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
1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. D2v Wella, wella day, wella, wella day: Thus cast yee flowers and sing, And on to Wakefield take your way.
1805 G. McIndoe Poems & Songs 92 The precious clay, Which in the tomb, with tears, I laid, Wella welladay!
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 89 And as she mutter'd ‘Well-a—well-a-day!’
1885 ‘M. Field’ William Rufus v. i, in Father's Trag. 203 Well-a—well-a-day! We'll to the show and you shall lead me on, Unfold me how the players gib and mince.
B. n.
The utterance of this exclamation; lamentation; (also) a lament. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > (an utterance of) specific cry
wellaway?c1225
harmesaya1487
ay me!a1547
welladay1582
heigh-hoc1604
ochone1654
wirrasthru1852
1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue lxxxii. sig. Lv At last, though late, farewell olde wellada.
1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xvi. 57 Their ioyfull song was turn'd to mournfull cries, And all their gladnesse chang'd to welladaies.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xviii. 43 His daughters woe and heauie welladay . View more context for this quotation
1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems 26 Th' inamour'd youth, whose flaming brest Makes Goddesses and Angels all..At his fruition flings away His Cloris and his Welladay And gladly joynes to fill our Quire.
1814 J. West Alicia de Lacy II. 291 Her ears were alternately assailed by the peccavis of penitence and the well-a-days of love.
1855 Student & Family Misc. July 104 Birds in the leaves are the voice of the wood, Uttering their melodies, jollities, or welladays.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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