See Also: Monday(dictionary)
Monday(dictionary)
Whit Monday(dictionary)
Easter Monday(dictionary)
Black Monday(dictionary)
Monday effect(finance)
Monday Morning(finance)
Monday Magazine(finance)
Black Monday(finance)
Black Monday(money)

Monday (iou)



Monday noun, adverb, & adjective.

A. noun. The second day of the week, following Sunday. OE.
Black Monday (a) Easter Monday; (b) School slang the first school-day after a vacation; (c) Stock Exchange Monday, 19 October 1987, the day of a worldwide collapse of stock markets. Bloody Monday School slang the first day of vacation, a day of punishment for offenders. Collop Monday: see COLLOP noun1. Easter Monday: see EASTER noun. Hock Monday: see HOCK-. Saint Monday arch. slang Monday spent in idleness as a consequence of drunkenness on the Sunday. Shrove Monday: see SHROVE-. Yellow Monday: see YELLOW adjective.
b. adverb. On Monday. Now colloq. ME.
C. attrib. or as adjective. Of Monday; characteristic of Monday; taking place on Monday(s). L16.
Monday Club a right-wing Conservative club that originally held its meetings on Mondays. Monday-clubber a member of the Monday Club. Monday-morning attrib. adjective characterized by or suggestive of lethargy or disinclination after a busy or eventful weekend. Monday morning quarterback: see QUARTERBACK noun 2.
Mondayish adjective suffering from or marked by indisposition or lethargy resulting from a busy or eventful weekend (orig. spec. of clergymen) E19.
Mondayishness noun M19.
Mondays adverb (colloq.) on Mondays, each Monday L20.