Origin and history of dog-tired

late 14c., in caniculer dayes, the "dog days" around mid-August, from Latin canicularis "pertaining to the dog days or the...Dog Star (Sirius)," from canicula "little dog," also "the Dog Star," diminutive of canis "a dog" (from PIE root *kwon- "...dog")....Historically, it is attested in literal use ("pertaining to a dog") only in jocular humor....

"dog," 1917, American English, of unknown origin....Earlier it was a dog name, attested as such by 1901 as the name of a dog owned by Dick Craine, "the Klondike pioneer" (the...article in the May 12 Buffalo Courier reports: " 'Pooch' is the Alaskan name for whisky, and although the dog is not addicted...to the use of this stimulant, he is a genuine Eskimo dog, and, therefore, it is appropriate")....

large, powerful breed of dog, apparently dating to ancient times, valued as a watch-dog, mid-14c., from Old French mastin...The etymological sense, then, would be a dog that stays in the house, thus a guard-dog or watchdog....

dog breed, 1808, from German Pudel, shortened form of Pudelhund "water dog," from Low German Pudel "puddle" (compare pudeln...Probably so called because the dog originally was used to hunt water fowl, but in England and America it was from the start...mainly an undersized fancy or toy dog with long, curly hair....

late 15c., "woman's small pet dog," a word of uncertain origin but likely to be from French poupée "doll, toy" (see puppet..."A little dog appears to have been called puppy because petted as a doll or puppet" [Century Dictionary]....The meaning shifted from "toy dog" to "young dog" (1590s), replacing native whelp....Puppy-dog is attested by 1590s (in Shakespeare, puppi-dogges). Puppy love "juvenile infatuation" is from 1823....

Modern French esquinacie) and from Anglo-Latin quinancia, from Late Latin cynanche, from Greek kynankhē "sore throat," also "dog...collar," literally "dog-choking," from kyōn (genitive kynos) "dog" (from PIE root *kwon- "dog") + ankhein "to strangle"...

The top dog is the one uppermost in a fight, from 1868 in figurative use, opposed to the underdog....But if the under dog in the social fight runs away with a bone in violation of superior force, the top dog runs after him...bellowing, "Thou shalt not steal," and all the other top dogs unite in bellowing, "This is divine law and not dog law;"...the verdict of the top dog so far as law, religion, and other forms of brute force are concerned settles the question....

expressing motion or direction from within or from a central point, also removal from proper place or position, Old English ut "out, without, outside," from Proto-Germanic *ūt- (Old Norse, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Gothic ut, Middle Dutch uut, Dutch uit, Old High German uz, German

"a stick or staff used in beating, a war-club, staff used to strike the ball in certain games," c. 1200, from rare Old English batt "cudgel," a western England word at first, probably from Welsh or another Celtic source (compare Irish and Gaelic bat, bata "staff, cudgel"), later