A corruption of Sabbath day, erroneously used for Sunday.
1833. [He] makes poetry himself sabbadays, made more poetry an’ you could shake a stick at.—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 135.
1833. Id., i. 45. [See HALVES, THE.]
1834. He used to go to the North meeting three times every Sabba’day.—Vermont Free Press, Aug. 9.
1848. Capting, I sorter recking it ain’t entered into your kalkilation as this here is Sabberday.—W. E. Burton, ‘Waggeries,’ p. 16 (Phila.).
a. 1848. There is nothing irregular in nature, because it is round, as I told you last Sabberdy.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 194.
