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week-end
1. a. (with a and pl.). The end of a week; the holiday period at the end of a week's work, usually extending from Saturday noon or Friday night to Monday; esp., this holiday when spent away from home. long week-end: see long a.1 18.
1638in Victoria County Hist. Yorkshire (1912) II. 415/2 The greatest weight of the said exaction will fall upon very poor people..who making every week a coarse kersey and being compelled to sell the same at the week end..are nevertheless constrained to yield one half penny apiece. 1793W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 27 Feb. (1965) i. 70 Wrote to Dewe that I would put on my seven league boots next weekend and stretch my course to Appleby. 1870Food Jrnl. 1 Mar. 97 ‘Week-end’, that is from Saturday until Monday,—it may be a later day in the week if the money and credit hold out,—is the season of dissipation. 1879N. & Q. Ser. v. XII. 428/2 In Staffordshire, if a person leaves home at the end of his week's work on the Saturday afternoon to spend the evening of Saturday and the following Sunday with friends at a distance, he is said to be spending his week-end at So-and-so. 1889M. E. Braddon Day will Come xxiv, Theodore and his friend betook themselves to Cheriton Chase on the following Friday, for that kind of visit which north country people describe as ‘a week end’. 1892Times 18 Mar. 8/2 They had evidently taken the house for week-ends. 1899S. R. Gardiner O. Cromwell vi. 192 Oliver..may be regarded as the inventor of that modified form of enjoyment to which hard-worked citizens have, in our day, given the name of the ‘week-end’. 1905Spectator 26 Aug. 289/1 What a ‘week-end’ it must have been for the host, whatever it may have been for the guest.
b. The period from Saturday to Monday during which business is suspended and shops are closed.
1878J. Almond Bunch of Water-cresses 4 If I get my 'bacco now, I can manage to see th' week-end o'er very well. 1913Times 13 Sept. 17/3 The Money Market was steady with a fair demand for advances over the week-end at about previous rates.
c. The end (i.e. the last day) of the week; Saturday. dial.
1880C. H. Poole Staffs. Gloss., Week-end, Saturday.
2. attrib.
a. For use at week-ends, as week-end bag, week-end case, week-end cottage, etc.; occurring at or for the duration of a week-end, as week-end course, week-end leave, week-end school, week-end war, etc.
1887Advt. of G.W.R. (in Lancs.), Week-end tickets. 1896Hetton-le-Hole (Durham) Gloss. s.v., ‘Week⁓end trips’ are now advertised on most of the [railway] lines. 1911‘Saki’ in Bystander 12 Apr. 70/2 I've seen a week-end cottage near Dorking that I should rather like to buy. 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 316 You live like a home defence Brigadier, besides week-end leaf [sic]. 1934Webster, Weekend case. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution 117 Short weekend courses and longer ‘study workshops’ for teachers. 1946C. McCullers Member of Wedding i. 10 At dark John Henry came to the back door with a little week-end bag. 1952‘M. Cost’ Hour Awaits 136 She carried a small, smart week-end case of crocodile. 1958O. Caroe Pathans xxv. 418 Roos-Keppel did indeed start his tour of office with two small operations the scale of which is sufficiently shown by the fact that one of them was called the week⁓end war. 1962J. Braine Life at Top x. 136, I came to each and every week-end school here. 1967R. V. Beste Repeat Instructions (1968) xiv. 148, I haven't a week-end cottage. 1973Guardian 22 Jan. 1/1 Lieutenant Mark Phillips, on weekend leave from Germany, went hunting on Saturday with Princess Anne. 1982J. O'Faolain Obedient Wife ii. 42 A weekend bag packed with scent, toothbrush and so forth.
b. Carrying out a specified activity or fulfilling a specified role only at week-ends or for pleasure (sometimes with the implication ‘casual, amateur’); e.g. week-end Air Force, week-end athlete, week-end father, week-end gardener, week-end motorist, week-end sailor, week-end soldier, week-end writer. Cf. Sunday n. 3.
1935Discovery Oct. 314/1 The publisher suggests that English Earth will interest equally the farmer and the week-end motorist. 1941Time 30 June 31/1 Week-end athletes should be careful. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 62 Week-end Air Force, The, the Auxiliary Air Force. It was formed in 1925, its officers and men being citizens who gave week-ends and other part-time to their duties. 1959Listener 12 Mar. 461/1 None of your present week-end, or decade-end writers realize that the present agitators are the sons of a former day, of which these writers presumably know nothing. 1962Jrnl. Family Law Fall 104 The law is, in fact, uncertain as to the rights of the ex-spouse. Consequently, it seems even more uncertain about the privileges which the law should extend to the children with ‘week⁓end fathers’. 1970New Yorker 3 Oct. 40/3 Will you look at them weekend soldiers. 1974Harper's & Queen Sept. 117 Humphrey Brooke was only a weekend gardener until..he decided to retire. 1976‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird ix. 120 The boat was..full of tanned, husky weekend sailors.
Hence week-end v. intr., to spend a week-end holiday; week-ending vbl. n.; also as ppl. a., (in the habit of) spending the week-end away from home. week-endize v. intr., to spend a week-end away from home (nonce-wd.). week-endy a., suggestive of the week-end.
1901Daily Chron. 31 July 7/2 Where shall we week end? 1906B. Vaughan Sins of Society 66 You see ‘week-endings’ have become part of the British Constitution, and nowadays everybody who is anybody has to be out of town in the season, say from Saturday to Tuesday. 1910R. Bridges Let. 21 June in Bridges & Bradley Corr. (1940) 77, I was glad to get your note saying that you wd week-endize. 1913W. J. Locke Stella Maris xv. 201 Where have you been week-ending? 1914A. M. N. Lyons Simple Simon i. iii. 42 He week-ends at Paris-Plage. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement xi. 567 She spent the next few minutes getting from the bus to the station, which was very crowded and week-endy. 1934Webster, Weekending adj. 1947J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 36 The Long Week-end—an ironical title which only the ‘week-ending’ Englishman will appreciate. 1973A. Grey Some put their Trust in Chariots xiii. 72 Weekending French families setting out in their saloons for the countryside. 1976G. Ewart No Fool ii. 61 Contrariwise, would you admire what's trendy (you were a fashion once yourself) or see virtue in what's suburban or weekendy? |