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workaday

[wur-kuh-dey]

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adjective

of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.

ordinary; commonplace; everyday; prosaic.

Origin:
1150–1200; alteration (probably after nowadays) of earlier worky-day workday, alteration (by association with holiday) of Middle English werkeday, obscurely derived from work and day

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workaday (ˈwɜːkəˌdeɪ)

—*adj*
1.	being a part of general human experience; ordinary
2.	suitable for working days; everyday or practical

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workaday

c.1200, werkedei, from O.N. virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. Older than workday (c.1430). It passed into an adj. 16c.

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"You have for company the best companion you will ever have—the modest, defeated, plodding workaday self which has a name and can be identified in public registers in case of accident or death. But the real self, the one who has taken over the reins, is almost a stranger. He is the one who is filled with ideas; he is the one who is writing in the air; he is the one who, if you become too fascinated with his exploits, will finally expropriate the old, worn-out self, taking over your name, your address, your wife, your past, your future."

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