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- adjective Alternative spelling of
dog-tired .
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amacleod03 commented on the word dog tired
In the Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s character Biondello pronounces himself to be “dog-weary.�? In his commentary, editor R. Warwick Boyd defines this as “utterly weary cf. ‘dog tired’ … the comparison in these cases being to a dog after a day’s hunting.�?
July 11, 2009