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Dog-whipping Day

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October 18th (St. Luke’s Day). It is said that a dog once swallowed the consecrated wafer in York Minster on this day.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dog-headed Tribes
Dog-Latin
Dog-leech (A)
Dog-rose
Dog-sick
Dog-sleep (A)
Dog-star
Dog-vane (A)
Dog-watch
Dog-whipper (A)
Dog-whipping Day
Dogs (a military term)
Dogs
Dogs
Dogs (Green)
Dogs-ears
Dogs-meat
Dog’s-nose
Dogged
Dogged
Dogaressa (g = j)