Meaning of black dog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Depression, melancholy.
   euphemistic
2. A small village in Washford Pyne parish and Woolfardisworthy parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS8009).
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, dog.

Examples

“A light seen suddenly in the storm, snow / Coming from all sides, like flakes / Of sleep, and myself / On the road to the dark barn, / Halfway there, a black dog near me”

“There's a black dog on my shoulder again / I'm playing with it but it's gone to my head”

“I can't breathe, feed the black dog / Refuse to breathe, refuse to fuck”

“Apologies, Miss Armstrong, the black dog has got me in its teeth.”

“I take a jump off the fire escape / To make the black dog go away”

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