Definitions
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- adverb informal on, or around
Monday - adjective informal feeling ill, especially used of clergymen having worked all day Sunday
- adjective informal
hungover after a weekend of drinking (as a presumed contributing explanation for a clergyman feeling Mondayish) - adjective informal
grumpy anddisheartened on returning to work on a Monday after the weekend
Etymologies
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Examples
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The argument was made that Bernie Mac was more weekendish, but the NYer was more Mondayish.
Did you notice how the controversy about the New Yorker cover instantly eclipsed the Bernie Mac story? Ann Althouse 2008
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-- The Lords seldom sit _die Lunae_, and were perhaps feeling what humbler folk call "rather Mondayish" at being summoned from their week-end pleasaunces to put the Local Government (Ireland) Bill through its final stages.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 Various
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I've had enough of it; I feel Mondayish, as we used to say in Lancashire. '
Thyrza George Gissing 1880
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On that day, after the three sermons on the Sunday, he always professed himself "Mondayish."
The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872
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Still, I had to have a little fun with this very Mondayish Monday.
The EDM SuperBlog 2009
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