/werr"keuh day'/ , adj.
1. of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
2. ordinary; commonplace; everyday; prosaic.
[ 1150-1200; alter. (prob. after NOWADAYS) of earlier worky-day workday, alter. (by assoc. with HOLIDAY) of ME werkeday, obscurely derived from WORK and DAY ]