monkey hour

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English

Noun

monkey hour (plural monkey hours)

  1. Late afternoon before sunset.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 126:
      "I was makin' up a litter in the monkey-hour for a young puma which is ill"