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

She asks Little Dog if he’s ever imagined himself inside a scene he’s created, and Little Dog thinks, “How could I tell you that what you were describing was writing?”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

The humour that made the essay "On the Death of a Little Dog" so irresistible makes this presentation of Maeterlinck's philosophy for children a thing of pure delight.

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

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