lackaday
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of lackaday
First recorded in 1685–95; alteration of alack the day
Example Sentences
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Lackaday, Master, but your exterior is not very prepossessing.
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Let only one catch my fancy--lackaday! either some one takes her, or she is in love with somebody else.
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Lackaday, wench! what have I done to redden thy brow?" interrupted Mr. Warden, with a face of perplexed good humour, unable longer to bear the storm of rebuke, or to parry the arguments which were so eagerly thrust at him; "I warrant now I have made mischief without knowing how!
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"Ah!" says the other, "woe and lackaday!"
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His kindness and courtesy have a favorable impression upon the social life of which he is the leader; but the weak chin and irresolute mouth tell a different tale when fighting his country's battles, and, lackaday, this has been proved over and over again already.
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