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warday dial.
Also in many corrupt forms, ware-, wartday, warder, warter, wharter, etc.: see Eng. Dial. Dict.
[Of Scandinavian origin: cf. Sw. hvardag, Da. hverdag, lit. ‘every day’ (ON. hver-r every, dag-r day).]
A week-day, as opposed to Sunday: = everyday n. b. Also attrib.
1598Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 214 To Anne Atkinson my warday gowne. 1788Marshall Rur. Econ. Yorks. II. 363 Wark-day (pron. warday); week-day; in contradistinction to Sunday: ‘Sunday and war-day.’ [For later examples see Eng. Dial. Dict.] |