dog days
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
- (archaic) The days following the heliacal rising#Noun|rising of Sirius, now in early August (Gregorian) at date#Noun|dates varying by latitude.
- Synonyms: canicular days
- 1538, Thomas Elyot, "Canicula" in The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot:
- 1883, H.H.C. Dunwoody, "Proverbs Relating to Months, Weeks, and Days" ↗ in Weather Proverbs ↗, Signal Service Notes, No. IX, p. 98: ↗
- Dog days bright and clear
Indicate a good year;
But when accompanied by rain,
We hope for better times in vain.
- Dog days bright and clear
- The unpleasantly hot days of late summer.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 214 ↗:
- Why ſhould thoſe Eteſian and Eaſterne winds blow cōtinually in ſome places, at ſet times, one way ſtill, in the dog dayes only: heere perpetuall drought, there dropping ſhowres; [...]
- 2013 August 17, "A Rickety Rebound ↗" in The Economist, Vol. 408, No. 8849:
- The dog days of August have often spelled trouble for the world economy.
- Any similar period of inactivity, laziness, or stagnation.
- 1993, Billboard (volume 105, number 24, page 62)
- The two-cassette miniseries, produced by Oliver Stone, arrives in early August, in time to stir the dog days of summer rentals.
- 1993, Billboard (volume 105, number 24, page 62)
- French: canicule
- German: Hundstage
- Italian: canicola, solleone
- Portuguese: canícula
- Russian: мёртвый сезо́н
- Spanish: canícula
- Russian: мёртвый сезо́н
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