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alackaday

alackaday interjection: synonym of alack.

Interjection

  1. Synonym of alack.
    • I got business cards printed up[…]Why not become the serious publisher that the world lauded me as?
      Alackaday! Those dinky little cards were the red flag waved at the Bull of Fate. At the first rumor that Tim Cavendish was flush, my saber-toothed meerkat creditors bounded into my office.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 152
    Synonyms:
    alack

Synonyms of alackaday

Questions about alackaday

What does alackaday mean?
Alackaday means synonym of alack.
What part of speech is alackaday?
Alackaday is an interjection.

Words near alackaday in the dictionary

  1. Alachua
  2. Alachua County
  3. alacizumab
  4. alack
  5. alack and alas
  6. alackaday
  7. alacranite
  8. alacrified
  9. alacrifies
  10. alacrify
  11. alacrifying

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