livelong

How dreary to be somebody / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog.

“Do you know we have been together the whole livelong day, Robert—since early this morning?” she said at parting.

She will stay in that bed the livelong day.

Suffice it to say that it doesn’t exactly boost morale to be greeted by an endless string of indignant, agonised, horror-movie-outtake variations on “How did you get this number?” all the livelong day.

Phil is livelong, including a stint as a principal guest conductor in the 1980s.