单词 | day-day |
释义 | day-dayint.n. colloquial. ‘Goodbye’. Also as n. in to shake a (also one's) day-day and variants: to wave goodbye. Cf. bye-bye int.2, night-night int., ta-ta int.Frequently in representations of the speech of small children, or that used by adults in speaking to small children. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell farewell1377 farewell itc1385 adieua1393 vale?1555 da-da1573 addio1577 goodbye1578 bye1618 adios1635 bye-bye1639 day-day1697 ta-ta1823 ave1850 sayonara1863 hooray1898 cheero1903 toodle-oo1907 hurroo1913 cheerio1914 pip-pip1919 tooraloo1922 cheery-bye1930 cheers1937 tara1958 ciao1961 toodles1965 tatty-bye1971 toodle-pip1977 1697 E. Settle World in Moon iii. 25 And so Squire, your Servant. Tommy, Day, day; day, day. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. vii. 35 Buy, buy Nic..won't you shake your day-day, Nic? 1784 P. Oliver in T. Hutchinson Diary II. 213 Day, day! Yrs, P. Oliver. 1839 Atkinson's Casket Feb. 89/2 There now, baby's quite ready.—Come, darling, shake a day-day before it goes. 1843 H. D. Thoreau Let. 22 May (1894) 92 Shake a day-day to Edith, and say good night to Ellen for me. Farewell. 1861 Peterson's Mag. June 456/1 He made his way out between our skirts and the gentlemen's legs to wave his little hand and say, ‘Day-day, day-day’. 1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 11 You find yourself saying day-day long before Papa drops in. 1954 Princeton Alumni Weekly 15 Oct. 16/2 Perhaps I can shake a ‘day-day’ to my classmates, as they whizz by. 1995 E. Boland Coll. Poems 146 Your husband frowns at dinner, has no time For the baby who has learned to crease three Fingers and wave ‘day-day’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.n.1697 |
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