witching

the witching hour

twelve o'clock at night It's time I was in bed - it's already past the witching hour.

witching hour

Midnight, as in They arrived just at the witching hour. This term alludes to older superstitions concerning a time appropriate to witchcraft and other supernatural occurrences. Shakespeare and others wrote of "the witching time of night." The precise phrase was first recorded in 1835.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Wiremu	-	Maori
Davit	-	Georgian
Osamu	o-sah-moo	Japanese
Clitus	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Adi (2)	-	Indonesian
Arkhip	-	Russian