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 thinks, “I’m filling myself with light.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

She knows all the fables of the Fox and the Crow, the Donkey and the Little Dog, the Cock and the Hen, and what they said to each other.

From Child Life In Town And Country 1909 by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)