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"text": "\"Do you know what three A.M. is?\" […] \"It's called the witching hour. It's the reverse of the holy hour—three P.M.—when Jesus died on the cross.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 September 22, Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath, Simon & Schuster",
"text": "The witching hour is three a.m., in mockery of the Trinity and a perversion of the hour of his death.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 April 27, Pamela Humphrey, My Sister's Walk with God, Covenant Books",
"text": "By the way, the hour between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. is also known as the witching hour because it's thought that paranormal forces are at their strongest during that time.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The hour between 3:00 a.m. and 3:59 a.m., associated with demons."
],
"links": [
[
"occult",
"occult"
],
[
"demon",
"demon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(less common, occult) The hour between 3:00 a.m. and 3:59 a.m., associated with demons."
],
"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"occult",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022 October 17, Jenn Cox, “Age-by-age Guide to Surviving Witching Hour”, in Kim Shiffman, editor, Today’s Parent, Toronto, Ont.: St. Joseph Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-17",
"text": "Witching hour: It just might be the most challenging time of the day. That window between dinner and bedtime where kids are wound up, parents want to wind down, and it feels like the longest hour or two ever. And although the term witching hour is most commonly applied to newborns and babies, kids of all ages seem to be extra sensitive at this time. Here are some ideas for getting through witching hour for kids of all ages.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A time of day, usually in the early evening, when babies and young children are more fretful and likely to cry or fuss."
],
"links": [
[
"time of day",
"time of day"
],
[
"early",
"early#Adjective"
],
[
"evening",
"evening#Noun"
],
[
"babies",
"baby#Noun"
],
[
"young",
"young#Adjective"
],
[
"children",
"child#Noun"
],
[
"fretful",
"fretful"
],
[
"cry",
"cry#Verb"
],
[
"fuss",
"fuss#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension)",
"A time of day, usually in the early evening, when babies and young children are more fretful and likely to cry or fuss."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"en:Stock market"
],
"glosses": [
"The final hour of trading each month during which certain stock options expire, leading to a higher trading volume and greater price volatility."
],
"links": [
[
"stock market",
"stock market"
],
[
"final",
"final#Adjective"
],
[
"hour",
"hour"
],
[
"trading",
"trading#Noun"
],
[
"month",
"month"
],
[
"stock option",
"stock option"
],
[
"expire",
"expire"
],
[
"leading",
"lead#Verb"
],
[
"higher",
"high#Adjective"
],
[
"volume",
"volume#Noun"
],
[
"greater",
"great#Adjective"
],
[
"price",
"price#Noun"
],
[
"volatility",
"volatility"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension)",
"(originally and chiefly US, stock market) The final hour of trading each month during which certain stock options expire, leading to a higher trading volume and greater price volatility."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"finance",
"stock-market"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ ˌaʊə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ ˌaʊ(ə)ɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"word": "ساعة السحر"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"word": "tinggawas"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hodina duchů"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"word": "keskiyö"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "l’heure du crime"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Geisterstunde"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ora delle streghe"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ora del diavolo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"word": "godzina duchów"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čas vedʹmovstva",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "час ведьмовства"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "глуво доба"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "gluvo doba"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hora de las brujas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "spöktimme"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "midnight, as an hour bringing bad luck — see also midnight",
"tags": [
"common"
],
"word": "spöktimmen definite singular"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "time of day when babies and young children are more fretful",
"word": "iltahuuto"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Hamlet",
"William Shakespeare"
],
"word": "witching hour"
}
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