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Mondayish

Mondayish adverb: on or around Monday.

Adverb

Mondayish (not comparable)

  1. (informal) On or around Monday.
    • I hope to have the job finished by Mondayish.

Adjective

Mondayish (comparative more Mondayish, superlative most Mondayish)

  1. (informal) feeling ill, especially used of clergymen having worked all day Sunday
    • I wonder if on this Monday morning all the world is rested? No, no! Many of the best people of the world feel Mondayish. They overdid the Sunday and had no rest.1798, Thomas De Witt Talmadge, Around the Tea-table
    • He loses the robustness and vigor of his physical frame, so that after preaching twice on the Sabbath, he feels Mondayish, and perhaps Tuesdayish.1846, Annual Report of the American Tract Society, volumes 21-25, page 9
  2. (informal) hungover after a weekend of drinking (as a presumed contributing explanation for a clergyman feeling Mondayish)
    • You all know that my work on the Sabbath day is very hard, and I used to think that I was entitled to something good after the labors of the day, and generally took a stiff glass of brandy and water. I did this, as I thought, to strengthen me, but I invariably passed a restless night, was always...1839, James Miller, Alcohol; it's place and power
    • As an ordinary drinker, he always used to find it necessary to have a glass of something as a night-cap, and then he always woke up in the morning hot and feverish, and Mondayish. That word Mondayish would be banished out of the language if they would only banish alcohol.c. 1862, “Total Abstinence for ministers”, in Journal of the American Temperance Union
  3. (informal) grumpy and disheartened on returning to work on a Monday after the weekend
    • I feel a bit Mondayish this week at the start of a long project.

Forms of Mondayish

comparativemore Mondayish
superlativemost Mondayish

Origin of Mondayish

From Monday + -ish.

Words formed from Mondayish

Questions about Mondayish

What does Mondayish mean?
Mondayish means on or around Monday.
What part of speech is Mondayish?
Mondayish can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near Mondayish in the dictionary

  1. Monday-morning quarterbacks
  2. Mondayisation
  3. Mondayise
  4. Mondayised
  5. Mondayises
  6. Mondayish
  7. Mondayishness
  8. Mondayising
  9. Mondayitis
  10. Mondayization
  11. Mondayize

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