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土用丑の日
【 どよううしのひ 】
1. [exp,n]
▶ day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season)
▶ dog days of summer
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2429430 土用の丑の日 1. day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season); dog days of summer



History:
2. A 2021-07-29 01:51:25  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
Google - KM
土用丑の日	74477 - 281
土用丑	15226 - 329
土用の丑の日	1225695 - 0
土用の丑の	22896 - 1296
土用のうしの日	350 - 0
  Comments: 
The Google n-gram counts are off the mark, probably because the old IPADIC lexicon has 丑の日 as a morpheme. The Unidic-based KM n-grams have the proportions right, but they stopped at 5 morphemes, hence the 0 counts. 
It seems 土用丑 is really an abbreviation of 土用丑の日, etc.
1. A* 2021-07-28 12:50:37  Nicolas Maia
  Refs: 
https://kotobank.jp/word/土用丑の日-1380003

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