workadayn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈwəːkədeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈwərkəˌdeɪ/

Forms:

α. early Middle English werrke daȝȝ ( Ormulum), Middle English werkedai, Middle English werke day, Middle English werkeday, Middle English werke daye, Middle English werkedaye, Middle English werkedei, Middle English workedais (plural, in a late copy), Middle English workeday, Middle English worke day, 1800s werk-e-day (English regional (midlands)).

β. 1500s woorkyday, 1500s workye-daye, 1500s–1600s workiday, 1500s–1600s workie day, 1500s– worky day, 1500s– workyday, 1600s workey day, 1600s workie-day, 1600s workieday, 1600s– worky-day, 1800s– worky-day.

γ. 1600s work a-day, 1600s work a day, 1700s– work-a-day, 1800s– wark-a-day (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s– workaday.

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: workday n.

Etymology: Probably an alteration of workday n., after Middle English trisyllabic variants of e.g. Sunday n. (compare especially the β. at that entry), mass-day n., and weekday n. With use as adjective compare earlier workday adj. and working day adj.An alternative derivation < Old English weorca , genitive plural of weorc work n. + day n. has also been suggested, but neither this nor any similar combination with weorca is attested in Old English. In many instances α. forms could instead be interpreted as showing forms of workday n.; examples from after 1500 with medial e have been placed at workday n. except where there is evidence that a trisyllabic form is intended. In β. forms probably influenced by holiday n.; compare also everyday n. and everyday adj. With γ. forms compare nowaday adv. and perhaps also aday adv.

A. n. Now regional and rare.

A day on which one usually or habitually works, as opposed to a holiday, weekend, etc.; a workday.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > day in which work is done

workdayOE

workadayc1175

working day?1478

business day1796

wottle day1866

α.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11315 Forr ȝure wuke gifeþþ ȝuw. Aȝȝ sexe werrke daȝȝess.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 19 Falleð to þer eorðe ȝef hit is werkedei wið gloria.

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 2415 Holy chirche by-say As an-oþer workeday: þe þorsday to wirche ffor þe many ffestes.

a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 4971 (MED) In þe longe ȝere be werke daye [?c1425 Royal ben werke dayes] I-nowe.

a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) l. 893 A-pon þe werkeday, Men be so bysy in vche way.

1488 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 279 I wold my prest shuld sing in them the werke daies during the 12 monethis.

β. 1550 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. i. xxvii. 218 That divers preachers within your diocess..do preach as well the worky days as the holy days.1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Fv On woorkyday I neuer coulde be taken With better meate..Then roots or chimnye bacon.1603 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 700 Sondaies, Holydaies, and workie days.1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. sig. G Fellow Onion for thy sake I fini[sh] this workiday . 1653 R. Flecknoe Miscellania 127 He is one, who makes alwayes Holy day for others, and worky-day for himself by taking upon him all the businesse.1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xii. 116 We find a great Deference paid to Saturday Afternoon, above the other worky Days of the Week.1789 H. Walpole Let. 20 July (1840) VI. 331 What the common people call a worky-day.1860 W. White All round Wrekin xvii. 170 If our teacher ain't ashamed to stop and shake hands with us, o' worky-days.1914 H. A. Laine Foot Prints 51 She muttered something about the way Some folks could loaf on a worky day.γ. a1636 J. Rogers Godly Expos. First Epist. Peter (1650) ii. 185 These things must be laid aside, not to put them on again at any time, as men do their work a-days clothes, but..at no time to put them on any more.1665 G. Downing Reply Remarks of Deputies of Estates-gen. 27 Were not hundreds of Carpenters sent on a suddaine to work thereupon, sparing..neither Holy Day, nor Work a Day, Moon-light, nor Sun-light.1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlix. 71 In the very clothes that he wore on work-a-days.1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 238/2 Life was an unbroken work-a-day.1905 A. R. Sennett Garden Cities I. v. 425 Sunday is spent by the workman-cultivator in a similarly unsatisfactory manner to that of workadays.2009 G. Gilman Cloud & Ashes 293 Attire for her calling: not for workadays.

B. adj.

Of, relating to, or associated with a workday or its activities; (hence) routine, ordinary, humdrum; not special, unusual, or interesting in any way. Cf. everyday adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary

commona1325

naturalc1390

ordinarc1400

ordinary?a1425

ilk-day's1488

naturely?c1510

famous1528

familiar1533

vulgar1553

workaday1554

modern1591

tralatitious1653

commonish1792

workday1808

everyday1813

bread and butter1822

normal1843

common-seeming1857

tralatician1893

wake-a-day1893

society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [adjective] > belonging to working day

workday1516

workaday1554

dayside1918

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific purpose > everyday wear

standing1492

workday1516

workaday1554

everydaya1640

β.

1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 146 My worky day cassocke.

1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 27 Band weares hee none, but a welt of course Holland, & if you see it stitcht with blew threed, it is no workiday wearing.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 48 Prythee tel her but a worky day Fortune.

1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 25 With such a Workiday-rough-hewn face too!

1723 C. Johnson Love in Forest iii. 42 Cæ. Will he make a good Husband? Ros. Aye, a good Workyday Husband; you must have another for Sundays.

1751 C. Talbot Let. 27 Sept. in Lett. Mrs. E. Carter & Miss C. Talbot (1808) I. 283 Oh this nasty worky-day world!

1877 F. Jacox Script. Prov. xlix. 545 In the common law of facts in this worky-day world.

γ. 1683 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I. Ep. Ded. sig. B8 Lewdness, Rioting, Cheating and Debauchery, are their work a day practise.1796 J. Thelwall Rights Nature ii. 10 It [sc. war] is pursued, with true work-a-day assiduity,..six days out of seven.1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xviii. 161 The less of real hard struggling work-a-day life there is in that romance, the better.1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. i. 8 Their work-a-day dress is a coarse brown or blue serge surtout.1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xvii. 284 We cannot long indulge in day-dreams in this workaday world.1874 P. Russell Leaves Journalist's Note-bk. 53 Goswell-road is..one of the most work-a-day of London thoroughfares.1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xii. 128 He did not attempt to understand the lighter side of life, but took it seriously as a work-a-day matter.1912 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 23 (advt.) The kind of folk who make up the sound core of American life, drawn just as they are, in their workaday clothes.1994 This Mag. (Toronto, Ont.) Nov. 11/2 These modern-day anti-heroes offer an escape from the workaday world of timecards and performance reviews.2005 S. Shellenbarger Breaking Point p. xviii I was..subsumed by a time-starved workaday routine of job, family, sleep, job, family, sleep.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	workaday
释义	workadayn.adj. Brit. /ˈwəːkədeɪ/, U.S. /ˈwərkəˌdeɪ/ Forms: α. early Middle English werrke daȝȝ ( Ormulum), Middle English werkedai, Middle English werke day, Middle English werkeday, Middle English werke daye, Middle English werkedaye, Middle English werkedei, Middle English workedais (plural, in a late copy), Middle English workeday, Middle English worke day, 1800s werk-e-day (English regional (midlands)). β. 1500s woorkyday, 1500s workye-daye, 1500s–1600s workiday, 1500s–1600s workie day, 1500s– worky day, 1500s– workyday, 1600s workey day, 1600s workie-day, 1600s workieday, 1600s– worky-day, 1800s– worky-day. γ. 1600s work a-day, 1600s work a day, 1700s– work-a-day, 1800s– wark-a-day (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s– workaday. Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: workday n. Etymology: Probably an alteration of workday n., after Middle English trisyllabic variants of e.g. Sunday n. (compare especially the β. at that entry), mass-day n., and weekday n. With use as adjective compare earlier workday adj. and working day adj.An alternative derivation < Old English weorca , genitive plural of weorc work n. + day n. has also been suggested, but neither this nor any similar combination with weorca is attested in Old English. In many instances α. forms could instead be interpreted as showing forms of workday n.; examples from after 1500 with medial e have been placed at workday n. except where there is evidence that a trisyllabic form is intended. In β. forms probably influenced by holiday n.; compare also everyday n. and everyday adj. With γ. forms compare nowaday adv. and perhaps also aday adv. A. n. Now regional and rare. A day on which one usually or habitually works, as opposed to a holiday, weekend, etc.; a workday. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > day in which work is done workdayOE workadayc1175 working day?1478 business day1796 wottle day1866 α. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11315 Forr ȝure wuke gifeþþ ȝuw. Aȝȝ sexe werrke daȝȝess. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 19 Falleð to þer eorðe ȝef hit is werkedei wið gloria. a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 2415 Holy chirche by-say As an-oþer workeday: þe þorsday to wirche ffor þe many ffestes. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 4971 (MED) In þe longe ȝere be werke daye [?c1425 Royal ben werke dayes] I-nowe. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) l. 893 A-pon þe werkeday, Men be so bysy in vche way. 1488 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 279 I wold my prest shuld sing in them the werke daies during the 12 monethis. β. 1550 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. i. xxvii. 218 That divers preachers within your diocess..do preach as well the worky days as the holy days.1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Fv On woorkyday I neuer coulde be taken With better meate..Then roots or chimnye bacon.1603 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 700 Sondaies, Holydaies, and workie days.1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. sig. G Fellow Onion for thy sake I fini[sh] this workiday . View more context for this quotation1653 R. Flecknoe Miscellania 127 He is one, who makes alwayes Holy day for others, and worky-day for himself by taking upon him all the businesse.1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xii. 116 We find a great Deference paid to Saturday Afternoon, above the other worky Days of the Week.1789 H. Walpole Let. 20 July (1840) VI. 331 What the common people call a worky-day.1860 W. White All round Wrekin xvii. 170 If our teacher ain't ashamed to stop and shake hands with us, o' worky-days.1914 H. A. Laine Foot Prints 51 She muttered something about the way Some folks could loaf on a worky day.γ. a1636 J. Rogers Godly Expos. First Epist. Peter (1650) ii. 185 These things must be laid aside, not to put them on again at any time, as men do their work a-days clothes, but..at no time to put them on any more.1665 G. Downing Reply Remarks of Deputies of Estates-gen. 27 Were not hundreds of Carpenters sent on a suddaine to work thereupon, sparing..neither Holy Day, nor Work a Day, Moon-light, nor Sun-light.1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlix. 71 In the very clothes that he wore on work-a-days.1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 238/2 Life was an unbroken work-a-day.1905 A. R. Sennett Garden Cities I. v. 425 Sunday is spent by the workman-cultivator in a similarly unsatisfactory manner to that of workadays.2009 G. Gilman Cloud & Ashes 293 Attire for her calling: not for workadays. B. adj. Of, relating to, or associated with a workday or its activities; (hence) routine, ordinary, humdrum; not special, unusual, or interesting in any way. Cf. everyday adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary commona1325 naturalc1390 ordinarc1400 ordinary?a1425 ilk-day's1488 naturely?c1510 famous1528 familiar1533 vulgar1553 workaday1554 modern1591 tralatitious1653 commonish1792 workday1808 everyday1813 bread and butter1822 normal1843 common-seeming1857 tralatician1893 wake-a-day1893 society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [adjective] > belonging to working day workday1516 workaday1554 dayside1918 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific purpose > everyday wear standing1492 workday1516 workaday1554 everydaya1640 β. 1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 146 My worky day cassocke. 1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 27 Band weares hee none, but a welt of course Holland, & if you see it stitcht with blew threed, it is no workiday wearing. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 48 Prythee tel her but a worky day Fortune. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 25 With such a Workiday-rough-hewn face too! 1723 C. Johnson Love in Forest iii. 42 Cæ. Will he make a good Husband? Ros. Aye, a good Workyday Husband; you must have another for Sundays. 1751 C. Talbot Let. 27 Sept. in Lett. Mrs. E. Carter & Miss C. Talbot (1808) I. 283 Oh this nasty worky-day world! 1877 F. Jacox Script. Prov. xlix. 545 In the common law of facts in this worky-day world. γ. 1683 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I. Ep. Ded. sig. B8 Lewdness, Rioting, Cheating and Debauchery, are their work a day practise.1796 J. Thelwall Rights Nature ii. 10 It [sc. war] is pursued, with true work-a-day assiduity,..six days out of seven.1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xviii. 161 The less of real hard struggling work-a-day life there is in that romance, the better.1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. i. 8 Their work-a-day dress is a coarse brown or blue serge surtout.1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xvii. 284 We cannot long indulge in day-dreams in this workaday world.1874 P. Russell Leaves Journalist's Note-bk. 53 Goswell-road is..one of the most work-a-day of London thoroughfares.1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xii. 128 He did not attempt to understand the lighter side of life, but took it seriously as a work-a-day matter.1912 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 23 (advt.) The kind of folk who make up the sound core of American life, drawn just as they are, in their workaday clothes.1994 This Mag. (Toronto, Ont.) Nov. 11/2 These modern-day anti-heroes offer an escape from the workaday world of timecards and performance reviews.2005 S. Shellenbarger Breaking Point p. xviii I was..subsumed by a time-starved workaday routine of job, family, sleep, job, family, sleep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.c1175
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