Meanings
- Synonym of hair of the dog.
1 more example
Back they both went most lovingly to the house, and Jack wakened up Coomara; and perceiving the old fellow to be rather dull, he bid him not be cast down, for 'twas many a good man's case; said it all came of his not being used to the potyeen, and recommended him, by way of cure, to swallow a hair of the dog that bit him.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 537Synonyms: hair of the dog
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of hair of the dog.
Cite this entry
hair of the dog that bit one. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair%20of%20the%20dog%20that%20bit%20one
“hair of the dog that bit one.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair%20of%20the%20dog%20that%20bit%20one. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hair of the dog that bit one,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair%20of%20the%20dog%20that%20bit%20one.
Source: hair of the dog that bit one on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.