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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Example Sentences

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

Little Dog looks at Trevor’s Facebook page, where Trevor’s father has written, “I’m broken in two,” and he thinks, “Now I’m broken into.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

The rising of Cancer was known from the setting of Corona Borealis and the rising of the Great and Little Dog, its three paranatellons.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert