welladay
English edit
Interjection edit
welladay
- variant form of wellaway; alas.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
- Alacke the time that ever I was borne, / To be partaker of this destinie. / Alacke the day, alacke and welladay.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:
- Ah! wel-a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young; / Instead of the Cross the Albatross / About my neck was hung.
Noun edit
welladay (plural welladays)
- A cry of "welladay".