See o-dark-thirty on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "By analogy with \"o-three-thirty\" (0330), \"o-four-thirty\" (0430), \"o-five-thirty\" (0530), and similar times as often expressed on the 24-hour clock—early morning hours that archetypally share the characteristics of a still-dark/nighttime sky and a distastefully early time of rising/arousal; the letter o in these terms comes from the /oʊ/-for-zero pronunciation, which (despite its conflated nature) is idiomatically widespread (just as it also is in \"two-point-oh\" for \"2.0\", for example); thus, it is not homologous to the o' in o'clock.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "o-dark-thirty (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "The wee hours." ], "id": "en-o-dark-thirty-en-noun-C6-gBlA5", "links": [ [ "wee hours", "wee hours" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) The wee hours." ], "tags": [ "informal", "uncountable" ], "wikipedia": [ "24-hour clock" ] } ], "word": "o-dark-thirty" }
{ "etymology_text": "By analogy with \"o-three-thirty\" (0330), \"o-four-thirty\" (0430), \"o-five-thirty\" (0530), and similar times as often expressed on the 24-hour clock—early morning hours that archetypally share the characteristics of a still-dark/nighttime sky and a distastefully early time of rising/arousal; the letter o in these terms comes from the /oʊ/-for-zero pronunciation, which (despite its conflated nature) is idiomatically widespread (just as it also is in \"two-point-oh\" for \"2.0\", for example); thus, it is not homologous to the o' in o'clock.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "o-dark-thirty (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "The wee hours." ], "links": [ [ "wee hours", "wee hours" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) The wee hours." ], "tags": [ "informal", "uncountable" ], "wikipedia": [ "24-hour clock" ] } ], "word": "o-dark-thirty" }
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