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

Little Dog asks, and then, later, “What is a country but a life sentence?”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

"Little Dog conducted me, with my party, to his lodge, and immediately the chief and braves collected in the 'council Lodge,' to receive my message...."

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives