Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express regret or disapproval.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation of sorrow or regret; alas! alas the day! Also
lawka-day .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection dated An expression of
regret orgrief .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We missed the Willems portion lackaday but caught Yee and Lubar.
Archive 2006-06-01 fusenumber8 2006
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But, as she once sang in a flop by Walter and Jean Kerr called Goldilocks (she blames them, too), "Heigh-ho, a-lackaday."
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But, as she once sang in a flop by Walter and Jean Kerr called Goldilocks (she blames them, too), "Heigh-ho, a-lackaday."
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My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent ---- Oh, lackaday!
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent ---- Oh, lackaday!
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent ---- Oh, lackaday!
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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I have been living on in a thirtover, lackaday way, and have not seen what it may lead to!
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My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent -- -- Oh, lackaday!
The White Company 1890
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I have been living on in a thirtover, lackaday way, and have not seen what it may lead to!
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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See, lackaday! the lady of Dolberg's beautiful chamois skin that was to be dyed of a delicate green for her ladyship's slippers.
The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick 1827
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