Mondayish vs Mondayitis - What's the difference?
mondayish | mondayitis |
(informal) on, or around Monday
(informal) feeling ill, especially used of clergymen having worked all day Sunday
* 1798 , Around the Tea-table by Thomas De Witt Talmadge
(informal) hungover after a weekend of drinking (as a presumed contributing explanation for a clergyman feeling Mondayish)
* 1839 , Alcohol; it's place and power by James Miller
* c. 1862 , "Total Abstinence for ministers" Journal of the American Temperance Union
(informal) grumpy and disheartened on returning to work on a Monday after the weekend
the tired and apathetic feeling experienced by persons returning to work on a Monday after the weekend
As an adverb Mondayish
is on, or around Monday.As an adjective Mondayish
is feeling ill, especially used of clergymen having worked all day Sunday.As a noun Mondayitis is
the tired and apathetic feeling experienced by persons returning to work on a Monday after the weekend.mondayish
English
Adverb
(-)- I hope to have the job finished by Mondayish .
Adjective
(en adjective)- I wonder if on this Monday morning all the world is rested? No, no! Many of the best people of the world feel Mondayish. They overdid the Sunday and had no rest.
- You all know that my work on the Sabbath day is very hard, and I used to think that I was entitled to something good after the labors of the day, and generally took a stiff glass of brandy and water. I did this, as I thought, to strengthen me, but I invariably passed a restless night, was always Mondayish, and felt unfit for anything; but since I have given up the brandy and water, I feel as well on Monday morning as I did on Saturday night.
- As an ordinary drinker, he always used to find it necessary to have a glass of something as a night-cap, and then he always woke up in the morning hot and feverish, and Mondayish. That word Mondayish would be banished out of the language if they would only banish alcohol.
- I feel a bit Mondayish this week at the start of a long project.