Little Dog

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. the constellation Canis Minor.

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Little Dog British  

noun

1. the English name for Canis Minor

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Little Dog

I say this with no glee; I went in needing and fully expecting an old-fashioned good time from the author of “The Little Dog Laughed,” “As Bees in Honey Drown” and many other hilarities.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

The narrator of Ocean Vuong’s coming-of-age novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” is Little Dog, a Vietnamese American son living with his loving but mentally abusive single mother in Hartford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2020

Buying a dress from the Salvation Army, his mother asks Little Dog to read the label and find out, “is it fireproof?”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2019

There is a staggering tenderness in the way that Little Dog holds all of this within himself, absorbing it and refusing to pass it on.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

There is also in the celestial sphere a constellation called the Little Dog and Procyon; the latter name has an obvious meaning, as appearing before the Dog-Star.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake