wellaway
/ˈwɛləweɪ/exclamation
As an exclamation of sorrow or lamentation: ‘ah!’ ‘alas!’ Compare welladay, wellanear, well-a-wins. Now archaic.
- Formerly often in to sing wellaway, my (his, her,etc.) song is wellaway.In ζ forms attested earlier as noun..
noun
The utterance of ‘wellaway’; lamentation.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. From woe adverb + lo + woe adverb, perhaps as a variant of wale with partial reduplication.
- blowing-up
- blow job
- Blow, John
- blowlamp
- blown
- blown-up
- blow off
- blow off steam
- blow one's nose
- blow one's (own) trumpet
- blow one's top (or lid or stack)
- blow (or clear) away the cobwebs
- blow (or toot) one's own horn
- blow out
- blowout
- blowout preventer
- blow over
- blowpipe
- blowsily
- blowsiness
- blow someone a kiss
- blow someone away
- blow someone off
- blow someone out
- blow someone's brains out