flat dog
Britishnoun
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It is enough to give a spirit the guts-ache—Many a true word, they say, is spoken in jest—this may be because his gab hindered my sublimity: the flat dog made me write a flat sonnet.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
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