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Definition: WELLADAY |
WELLADAYInterjection1. Alas! Welaway! |
Note: Welladay \Well"a*day\, interj. [Corrupted from wela way.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wonder | Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I? |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "WELLADAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | уви (alas, wellaway), горко ми (wellaway). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elladayway.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WELLADAY": welladays. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "WELLADAY" (pronounced 'Well"a*day'): Alackaday, Alday, Friday, Holyday, Monday, Playday, Rudmasday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Whitmonday, Whittuesday, Workday, Working-day, Workyday. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-l-l-w-y" | |
-1 letter: allayed. | |
-2 letters: lewdly, walled, yawled. | |
-3 letters: allay, alley, alway, dally, delay, delly, dwell, ladle, lawed, layed, leady, waled, walla, wally, weald, welly, wyled, yawed. | |
-4 letters: alae, ally, away, awed, dale, deal, dell, dewy, lade, lady, lead, leal, lewd, wade, wady, wale, wall, waly, weal, weld, well, wyle, yald, yawl, yeld, yell. | |
-5 letters: aal, ala, ale. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-l-l-w-y" | |
+1 letter: welladays. | |
+4 letters: wallydraigle. | |
+5 letters: wallydraigles. | |
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