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单词 day-day
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day-dayint.n.

Brit. /ˌdeɪˈdeɪ/, /ˈdeɪˌdeɪ/, U.S. /ˌdeɪˈdeɪ/, /ˈdeɪˌdeɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English day , good day int.
Etymology: Reduplication of day (in good day int.).
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.
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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).
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