dog dayn.

Brit.

/ˈdɒɡ deɪ/, U.S.

/ˈdɔɡ ˌdeɪ/,

/ˈdɑɡ ˌdeɪ/

Forms: see dog n.¹ and day n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: dog n.¹, day n.

Etymology: < dog n.¹ + day n., after post-classical Latin caniculares dies dog days (see canicular adj.), itself after Hellenistic Greek κυνάδες ἡμέραι . Compare earlier canicular days n. at canicular adj. 1.Compare Middle Dutch hontdage, hontsdage (Dutch hondsdagen), Middle Low German hundedāge, Middle High German hundische tage, huntlīche tage, all plural, hundetac, singular (German Hundstage, plural).

a. In plural. The hottest part of the summer, associated in ancient times with the heliacal rising of the Dog Star in the Mediterranean area, and formerly considered to be the most unhealthy period of the year and a time of ill omen. Cf. canicular days n. at canicular adj. 1.The dog days have been variously reckoned, as depending on either the Greater Dog Star (Sirius) or the Lesser Dog Star (Procyon), and on either the heliacal rising or the cosmical rising (which occurs at an earlier date). The timing of these risings depends on latitude, and they do not occur at all in most of southern hemisphere; in addition, owing to the precession of the equinox they now take place later in the year. As a result very different dates have been assigned for the dog days, their beginning ranging from 3 July to 15 August, and their duration varying from 30 to 61 days. In the Calendar of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer they run from 7 July to 5 September. In current calendars they are often said to begin on 3 July and end on 11 August (i.e. the 40 days preceding the cosmical rising of Sirius at the latitude of Greenwich).The name arose from the pernicious qualities of the season being attributed to the ‘influence’ of the Dog Star; but it has long been popularly associated with the belief that at this season dogs are most liable to go mad (cf. quot. 1601 for canicular days n. at canicular adj. 1).

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [noun] > spell or season of > dog days

canicular days1398

canicularc1420

dog days1538

canicule1701

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Canicula..a sterre, wherof canicular or dogge days be named Dies caniculares.

1564 P. Moore Hope of Health f. lviij^v There be sometimes of the yeare wherein purgations ought not to bee ministred, as in Somer, specially the Dogge daies.

1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency IV. 52 For now (it being the Dog-dayes) the house grew so hot, that diverse members withdrew.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 413 The Reverberation of which [high mountain] so furiously heats the place in the dog-days, that it scalds again.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 397 Hotter in January, than Italy in the Dog-Days.

1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 174 Bilious, hot constitutions of any ages, are subject to this fever, especially in the dog-days, or most intense heat of the summer.

1800 J. Vint Conc. Syst. Mod. Geogr. I. 417 The climate of Sky is not the most genial or benignant. The spring is backward; summer indeed warm, yet not torrid; but about the dog-days the rains usually begin.

1865 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 13 96 The dog days still bear their old relation to the rising of the dog star.

1902 Times 28 July 13/6 Last week's conditions were more suggestive of November than of the Dog days.

1950 W. O. Douglas Of Men & Mountains xv. 193 September frosts would be on the heels of the dog days of August.

2005 D. Daley-Clarke Lazy Eye 174 We are at the end of Dog Days when the Dog Star is ascending and they are the hottest days of any year.

b. A day in the dog days.

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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun]

dayOE

journeyc1305

joura1500

dog day1669

nycthemeron1682

lunar day1686

political day1706

twenty-four1735

nycthemer1837

mail-day1844

Tag1914

1669 R. Stapylton Trag. Hero & Leander i. 1 Master, this Feast of Venus and Adenis Is hotter then a dog-Day: how I sweat?

1769 O. Ruffhead Life A. Pope 35 Is it necessary to make a complaint of this kind consistent, that every day should be a dog-day?

1824 U.S. Lit. Gaz. (1825) 1 Sept. 156/1 If any one of them ever was so foolish as to put pen to paper in a dog-day, he will appreciate our efforts and our merit.

1887 J. Fiske Let. 6 July (1940) 548 Thermometer there..118 degrees in the shade, but no sultriness; less uncomfortable than 85 degrees on a Cambridge dog-day.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 13/3 It was summer, a regular dog-day in August; and I was dressed in the clothes the prison had given me.

1952 S. J. Perelman Let. 11 Feb. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 122 Right now (early afternoon) it's like an August dog-day, without any air-cooled bars to escape to.

2005 M. Fazi in E. Datlow et al. Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 377 On a dog-day like that, I must have been the only man in the state to flee the shade.

2. figurative. In plural. In early use: an evil time; a period in which malignant influences prevail. Now (in weakened sense): a period of inactivity or decline.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > time of > day or days

dismalc1300

Egyptian days1398

cross-days1555

dog day1555

1555 J. Philpot Let. in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 283 Neither that any giddy head in these dog-days might take an ensample by you to dissent from Christ's true church.

1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. E3^v In these dog-dayes how this contagion smoothers The purest bloods.

1629 N. Carpenter Achitophel i. 10 What then shall wee now expect in these dogge-dayes of the worlds declining age?

1684 E. Settle State of Eng. in Relation Popery Ep. Ded. We live in a Kingdom where..we are in that Temperate Region, that (unless now and then of late in the too sultry Dog-Days of Black-rod, and Messenger Time) we are only Govern'd by Law.

1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism vii. 306 During the dog-days of the Romish spiritual despotism.

1862 E. L. Blanchard Harlequin & House that Jack Built iii. 19 A desperate struggle ensues as in the pieces belonging to the dog-days of the Minor Drama.

1992 N.Y. Times 12 July iv. 6/5 One possibly beneficial byproduct of the managerial dog days may be that it will prepare younger people for the..career-jumping likely to be their lot.

2002 Mojo Feb. 34/3 In the dog-days of The Beatles, one of Paul's plans for holding it all together had been for the world's most fabled band to just go out and play.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and in the genitive.

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1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Bii [They] pretending forsooth to anatomize abuses,..when as there waste paper beeing wel viewed, seemes fraught with nought els saue dogge daies effects.

1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 100 A Doctor of physick was telling one how wholsome it is to breake ones fast all the dog-day mornings.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 10 My double draught may quench his dog-daies rage.

1613 J. Stephens Cinthia's Revenge v. i. sig. P4 Flye-blowne already as a carkasse hot Which hath no shelter from the dog-day Sunne.

1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises sig. K Such as shrinke not To haue their blouds sod with the dog daies heat.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 432 The Siriasis, or Phransy, or Dog day Madness: is a distemper from the inflaming of the Brain.

1719 E. Young Busiris ii. 15 Like poysonous Vermin in a Dog-day Sun.

1769 J. Gerrard Poems 41 Dog-day thunders are more kind than you.

1804 J. Macknight Harmony Four Gospels (ed. 3) II. 462 Watered with torrents from the mountains, and perennial springs when the other happen to fail through the dog days heat.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables viii. 131 She found herself quite overpowered by the sultry, dog-day heat, as it were, of benevolence.

1881 Harper's New Monthly Mag. July 229/1 It was a true dog-day afternoon, the rain having made the air more close and lifeless than before.

1975 E. Kennedy Things my Mother told Me ii. 23 Besides these seasonal sales there are George Washington's Birthday sales, inventory sales, warehouse sales, and dog day sales.

1991 M. C. Gilfillan Moods of Ohio Moons 89 The time of dog days heat is passed, the annoying insects are thinning.

1996 Chesapeake Bay Feb. 18/3 A typical dog-day summer afternoon.

C2. U.S. Designating large annual cicadas of the genus Tibicen, which emerge during the dog days.

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1854 E. Emmons Agric. N.Y. V. 152 Cicada canicularis, Dogday Harvestfly.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 236 I heard the dog-day locust here.

1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies iii. 278 In cicadas, or ‘dog-day harvest-flies’.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 228 In the North many different species of cicadas are commonly called harvest flies, dog-day cicadas or lyremen, probably because their shrill songs are heard in the hot days of late July August.

2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 19 Apr. 70/3 The ‘dog-day’ cicadas..have shorter sojourns underground and emerge in smaller numbers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dog day
释义	dog dayn. Brit. /ˈdɒɡ deɪ/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡ ˌdeɪ/, /ˈdɑɡ ˌdeɪ/ Forms: see dog n.¹ and day n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: dog n.¹, day n. Etymology: < dog n.¹ + day n., after post-classical Latin caniculares dies dog days (see canicular adj.), itself after Hellenistic Greek κυνάδες ἡμέραι . Compare earlier canicular days n. at canicular adj. 1.Compare Middle Dutch hontdage, hontsdage (Dutch hondsdagen), Middle Low German hundedāge, Middle High German hundische tage, huntlīche tage, all plural, hundetac, singular (German Hundstage, plural). 1. a. In plural. The hottest part of the summer, associated in ancient times with the heliacal rising of the Dog Star in the Mediterranean area, and formerly considered to be the most unhealthy period of the year and a time of ill omen. Cf. canicular days n. at canicular adj. 1.The dog days have been variously reckoned, as depending on either the Greater Dog Star (Sirius) or the Lesser Dog Star (Procyon), and on either the heliacal rising or the cosmical rising (which occurs at an earlier date). The timing of these risings depends on latitude, and they do not occur at all in most of southern hemisphere; in addition, owing to the precession of the equinox they now take place later in the year. As a result very different dates have been assigned for the dog days, their beginning ranging from 3 July to 15 August, and their duration varying from 30 to 61 days. In the Calendar of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer they run from 7 July to 5 September. In current calendars they are often said to begin on 3 July and end on 11 August (i.e. the 40 days preceding the cosmical rising of Sirius at the latitude of Greenwich).The name arose from the pernicious qualities of the season being attributed to the ‘influence’ of the Dog Star; but it has long been popularly associated with the belief that at this season dogs are most liable to go mad (cf. quot. 1601 for canicular days n. at canicular adj. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [noun] > spell or season of > dog days canicular days1398 canicularc1420 dog days1538 canicule1701 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Canicula..a sterre, wherof canicular or dogge days be named Dies caniculares. 1564 P. Moore Hope of Health f. lviij^v There be sometimes of the yeare wherein purgations ought not to bee ministred, as in Somer, specially the Dogge daies. 1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency IV. 52 For now (it being the Dog-dayes) the house grew so hot, that diverse members withdrew. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 413 The Reverberation of which [high mountain] so furiously heats the place in the dog-days, that it scalds again. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 397 Hotter in January, than Italy in the Dog-Days. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 174 Bilious, hot constitutions of any ages, are subject to this fever, especially in the dog-days, or most intense heat of the summer. 1800 J. Vint Conc. Syst. Mod. Geogr. I. 417 The climate of Sky is not the most genial or benignant. The spring is backward; summer indeed warm, yet not torrid; but about the dog-days the rains usually begin. 1865 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 13 96 The dog days still bear their old relation to the rising of the dog star. 1902 Times 28 July 13/6 Last week's conditions were more suggestive of November than of the Dog days. 1950 W. O. Douglas Of Men & Mountains xv. 193 September frosts would be on the heels of the dog days of August. 2005 D. Daley-Clarke Lazy Eye 174 We are at the end of Dog Days when the Dog Star is ascending and they are the hottest days of any year. b. A day in the dog days. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] dayOE journeyc1305 joura1500 dog day1669 nycthemeron1682 lunar day1686 political day1706 twenty-four1735 nycthemer1837 mail-day1844 Tag1914 1669 R. Stapylton Trag. Hero & Leander i. 1 Master, this Feast of Venus and Adenis Is hotter then a dog-Day: how I sweat? 1769 O. Ruffhead Life A. Pope 35 Is it necessary to make a complaint of this kind consistent, that every day should be a dog-day? 1824 U.S. Lit. Gaz. (1825) 1 Sept. 156/1 If any one of them ever was so foolish as to put pen to paper in a dog-day, he will appreciate our efforts and our merit. 1887 J. Fiske Let. 6 July (1940) 548 Thermometer there..118 degrees in the shade, but no sultriness; less uncomfortable than 85 degrees on a Cambridge dog-day. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 13/3 It was summer, a regular dog-day in August; and I was dressed in the clothes the prison had given me. 1952 S. J. Perelman Let. 11 Feb. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 122 Right now (early afternoon) it's like an August dog-day, without any air-cooled bars to escape to. 2005 M. Fazi in E. Datlow et al. Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 377 On a dog-day like that, I must have been the only man in the state to flee the shade. 2. figurative. In plural. In early use: an evil time; a period in which malignant influences prevail. Now (in weakened sense): a period of inactivity or decline. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > time of > day or days dismalc1300 Egyptian days1398 cross-days1555 dog day1555 1555 J. Philpot Let. in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 283 Neither that any giddy head in these dog-days might take an ensample by you to dissent from Christ's true church. 1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. E3^v In these dog-dayes how this contagion smoothers The purest bloods. 1629 N. Carpenter Achitophel i. 10 What then shall wee now expect in these dogge-dayes of the worlds declining age? 1684 E. Settle State of Eng. in Relation Popery Ep. Ded. We live in a Kingdom where..we are in that Temperate Region, that (unless now and then of late in the too sultry Dog-Days of Black-rod, and Messenger Time) we are only Govern'd by Law. 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism vii. 306 During the dog-days of the Romish spiritual despotism. 1862 E. L. Blanchard Harlequin & House that Jack Built iii. 19 A desperate struggle ensues as in the pieces belonging to the dog-days of the Minor Drama. 1992 N.Y. Times 12 July iv. 6/5 One possibly beneficial byproduct of the managerial dog days may be that it will prepare younger people for the..career-jumping likely to be their lot. 2002 Mojo Feb. 34/3 In the dog-days of The Beatles, one of Paul's plans for holding it all together had been for the world's most fabled band to just go out and play. Compounds C1. General attributive and in the genitive. ΚΠ 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Bii [They] pretending forsooth to anatomize abuses,..when as there waste paper beeing wel viewed, seemes fraught with nought els saue dogge daies effects. 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 100 A Doctor of physick was telling one how wholsome it is to breake ones fast all the dog-day mornings. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 10 My double draught may quench his dog-daies rage. 1613 J. Stephens Cinthia's Revenge v. i. sig. P4 Flye-blowne already as a carkasse hot Which hath no shelter from the dog-day Sunne. 1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises sig. K Such as shrinke not To haue their blouds sod with the dog daies heat. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 432 The Siriasis, or Phransy, or Dog day Madness: is a distemper from the inflaming of the Brain. 1719 E. Young Busiris ii. 15 Like poysonous Vermin in a Dog-day Sun. 1769 J. Gerrard Poems 41 Dog-day thunders are more kind than you. 1804 J. Macknight Harmony Four Gospels (ed. 3) II. 462 Watered with torrents from the mountains, and perennial springs when the other happen to fail through the dog days heat. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables viii. 131 She found herself quite overpowered by the sultry, dog-day heat, as it were, of benevolence. 1881 Harper's New Monthly Mag. July 229/1 It was a true dog-day afternoon, the rain having made the air more close and lifeless than before. 1975 E. Kennedy Things my Mother told Me ii. 23 Besides these seasonal sales there are George Washington's Birthday sales, inventory sales, warehouse sales, and dog day sales. 1991 M. C. Gilfillan Moods of Ohio Moons 89 The time of dog days heat is passed, the annoying insects are thinning. 1996 Chesapeake Bay Feb. 18/3 A typical dog-day summer afternoon. C2. U.S. Designating large annual cicadas of the genus Tibicen, which emerge during the dog days. ΚΠ 1854 E. Emmons Agric. N.Y. V. 152 Cicada canicularis, Dogday Harvestfly. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 236 I heard the dog-day locust here. 1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies iii. 278 In cicadas, or ‘dog-day harvest-flies’. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 228 In the North many different species of cicadas are commonly called harvest flies, dog-day cicadas or lyremen, probably because their shrill songs are heard in the hot days of late July August. 2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 19 Apr. 70/3 The ‘dog-day’ cicadas..have shorter sojourns underground and emerge in smaller numbers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1538
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