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weekendy en · ADJ

Etymology

From weekend + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Characteristic of a weekend, especially as a period when one does not go to work but can relax instead.
   • Not yet, he said to himself. In a few days we'll feed again. It's more of a weekendy thing to do anyway. He remembered the first time he had taken a human life to feed his power, all those decades ago. 2003, Jim Catapano, A Stirring of Shadows, page 25:
   • In the beginning, Anne had trouble believing that they were really living at Long Barn. “For the first week or two . . . I woke up each morning feeling detached and weekendy—like a guest,” she wrote […] 2007, Beverly Gherman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Between the Sea and the Stars, page 93:

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