day name

[ dey neym ]

noun

1. (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a Black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's gender and the day of the week on which they were born, as the male and female names for Sunday Quashee and Quasheba, Monday Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba, Tuesday Cubbena and Beneba, Wednesday Quaco and Cuba or Cubba, Thursday Quao and Abba, Friday Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi, and Saturday Quamin or Quame and Mimba.

day name

noun

1. a name indicating a person's day of birth

Word History and Origins

Origin of day name¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Suppose you climb down out of the high-browed altitudes and give it a plain, every-day name?

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Whoever is right, it is certain that the year can begin with its first day-name only once every four years.

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It is a beautiful name with a beautiful meaning, if it werent that it is her every-day name.

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Will you think me rude if I ask you the every-day name of your King Cophetua?

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Finally, in any given year any particular day-name occupied the same relative position throughout the divisions of that year.

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