"dog day" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A singularization of dog days.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "dog days",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1856 July 30, Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Thoreau, volume 2, page 1:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding:",
          "text": "\"A terrible terrible dog day storm. Or maybe even a cyclone.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nina G. Dorsch, Community, Collaboration, and Collegiality in School Reform, page 51:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "One of the dog days of summer: a late-summer day."
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          "summer",
          "summer"
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        [
          "late",
          "late"
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        [
          "day",
          "day"
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    }
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  "word": "dog day"
}

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  "etymology_text": "A singularization of dog days.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dog days",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1856 July 30, Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Thoreau, volume 2, page 1:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding:",
          "text": "\"A terrible terrible dog day storm. Or maybe even a cyclone.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nina G. Dorsch, Community, Collaboration, and Collegiality in School Reform, page 51:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One of the dog days of summer: a late-summer day."
      ],
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          "day",
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  "word": "dog day"
}