or Mondayfied, adj. (common).—See quots.

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  1864.  Fraser’s Magazine, March, p. 382. Sunday is not a day of rest to him [the clergyman]; it is a day of grateful work, in which many week duties are laid aside; but it is a day of work, the reaction from which has created the clerical slang word MONDAYISH.

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  1885.  Illustrated London News, 26 Sept., p. 331. When one feels fagged and wearied, with nerves overstrained, and altogether in that used-up condition that a parson, after a hard Sunday’s work, terms MONDAYISH.

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.  In the Idles; not-up-to-work; run down; seedy; off colour; off it; off the spot; out of it; shilly-shally; soft in the back; stale.

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  FRENCH SYNONYMS.  Etre carne (popular); s’engrouillé (popular); s’enrossé (popular); être un Flémard: also avoir la flème or flemme; n’en pas foutre un clou, un coup, or une secousse (= to be superlatively idle); malade du pouce; mou comme une loche; un Saint-lâche (= a MONDAYISH workman).

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