wakeaday, wake-a-day ? nonce-wd.
(ˈweɪkədeɪ)
[f. wake v. + day n., after workaday.]
Of life, etc.: such as one wakes up to each day; that is experienced by ordinary people; regular.
| 1893 G. B. Shaw Let. 21 Aug. (1965) I. 401 All these terrible combats..on behalf of Wilde, Pinero, [Frank] Harris &c. &c. &c. belong to Piona and not to the wake-a-day world. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 97/2 Synthetic gods and goddesses (stars) appear to assume the roles of our wakeaday existence. 1962 ― Gutenberg Galaxy 269 The electric puts the mythic or collective dimension of human experience fully into the conscious wake-a-day world. |