Sommerloch

== German == === Etymology === From Sommer (“summer”) +‎ Loch (“hole, gap”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈzɔmɐˌlɔx/ Hyphenation: Som‧mer‧loch === Noun === Sommerloch n (strong, genitive Sommerlochs or Sommerloches, plural Sommerlöcher) (journalism) silly season; slow news day (time during the summer break when the media resort to reporting largely inconsequential stories) Synonym: Sauregurkenzeit ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Sommerloch” in Duden online “Sommerloch”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) Sommerloch on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de