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dog day en · NOUN

Etymology

A singularization of dog days.

Meanings

1. One of the dog days of summer: a late-summer day.
   • "A terrible terrible dog day storm. Or maybe even a cyclone." 1946, Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding:
   • August 24, 1993 was the first day of the new school year at Cedar City High School. The day dawned sunny and steamy, promising another "dog day" in southern Ohio. 1998, Nina G. Dorsch, Community, Collaboration, and Collegiality in School Reform, page 51:
   • This is a perfect dog-day. The atmosphere thick, mildewy, cloudy. It is difficult to dry anything. The sun is obscured, yet we expect no rain. 1856 July 30, Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Thoreau, volume 2, page 1:

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