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Definition of Hair of the dog
1. Noun. An alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover.
Definition of Hair of the dog
1. Noun. (idiomatic) An alcoholic drink taken the morning after to cure a hangover or withdrawal symptoms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hair Of The Dog
Literary usage of Hair of the dog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"form, " Take a hair of the dog that bit you" ? which is found at least as far
back as Heywood : A haire of the dog that bit из last night. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"To take a hair of the dog that bit you," to take a dram in the morning after a
too free indulgence in liquor on the previous evening. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"I had often heard, when a person had been tipsy the evening before, people tell
him to take a hair of the dog that bit him, but never saw it in the literal ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1902)
"... hair on the scratches inflicted by the dog, carrying out the old saw that the
hair of the dog is an antidote for the 'bite. She, after having put on the ..."
5. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"Hair of the Dog. When a man is debilitated from the effects of the previous
night's debauch, he is frequently counselled to take ' a hair of the dog that ..."
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