Meanings
interjection
- Synonym of alack.
I got business cards printed up[…]Why not become the serious publisher that the world lauded me as? Alackaday! Those dinky little cards were the red flag waved at the Bull of Fate. At the first rumor that Tim Cavendish was flush, my saber-toothed meerkat creditors bounded into my office.
2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 152Synonyms: alack
Synonyms & antonyms
interjectionSynonym of alack.
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