lackaday
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of lackaday
First recorded in 1685–95; alteration of alack the day
Example Sentences
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I have been living on in a thirtover, lackaday way, and have not seen what it may lead to!
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas
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!
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Bobby barn Bossy lackaday who'll shoo drive moo mammy's 108.
From The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 by Field, Walter Taylor
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