washday
/'wɔʃdei/ Cách viết khác : (washing-day) /'wɔʃiɳdei/
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.
Noun
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a day set aside for doing household laundry
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