washday

/'wɔʃdei/ Cách viết khác : (washing-day) /'wɔʃiɳdei/

Thân thiện

Washday is the day we do all the laundry at home.

Definition

Noun: A specific day of the week that is regularly scheduled or designated for washing clothes and household laundry.

Examples

• Monday was always washday in our house.
• With modern appliances, the concept of a single washday is less common.
• She spent the entire washday sorting, washing, and hanging out the clothes.

Advanced Usage

• "to make a washday of it": (idiomatic) To turn an event or situation into a lot of hard work or drudgery.
  • The picnic was fun, but cleaning up afterward made a washday of it.

Variants and Related Words

• Washing day: An alternative, less common form with the same meaning.
  • She kept to the old routine of a Monday washing day.

Synonyms

• Laundry day

Related Idioms

• "A month of Sundays": A very long, seemingly endless period of time. (Sometimes used humorously in contrast to the regularity of "washday").
  • It will take me a month of Sundays to finish this task.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a day set aside for doing household laundry

Từ đồng nghĩa

• washing day