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Definition: BLUE MONDAY |
BLUE MONDAY1. A Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent). |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Blue Monday The Monday before Lent, spent in dissipation. (German, der blaue Montag.) It is said that dissipation gives everything a blue tinge. Hence "blue" means tipsy. (See Blue Devils .) "Drink till all is blue. Cracking bottles till all is blue." Fraser's Magazine, xvii. (1838). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Blue Monday (1938) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue monday | 119 |
blue monday orgy | 17 |
good bye blue monday | 8 |
blue monday new order | 7 |
blue monday tab | 3 |
blue monday mp3 new order | 3 |
blue monday song | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLUE MONDAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | szentheverdel napja, suszterhétfő, böjt előtti hétfő. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブリッジ回路 (bloomers, blue, blue backs, Blue Bird, blue book, blue boy, blue chip, blue day, blue film, Blue Impulse, Blue Ribbon, blue sex, blue train, blueberry, blue-black, blue-collar worker, blueglass, blues, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, bridge circuit, brilliant, brilliant cut, British Airways, British Columbia, broom, Brussels, Bulgaria, bull, Burkina Faso, childpornography), homosexual, shops where girls' uniforms and underwear are resold to dirty old men, sleeping train). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブルーマンデー . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ueblay ondaymay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-m-n-o-u-y" | |
-2 letters: unblamed, undoable. | |
-3 letters: abdomen, albumen, baloney, benomyl, nelumbo, umbonal, unlobed. | |
-4 letters: abound, adenyl, albedo, almond, almude, ambled, badmen, baymen, bedamn, bedlam, belady, belaud, beldam, bemoan, benday, beyond, blamed, blonde, blumed, bundle, buoyed, byname, daemon, doable, dolman, dolmen, double, doubly, dumbly, dyable, dynamo, embody, emboly, lambed, laymen, lemony, loamed, loaned, louden, mauled, maundy, meanly. | |
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