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sundog

sundog is the alternative form of sun dog.

Meaning of sun dog

Noun

sun dog (plural sun dogs)

  1. A bright spot in the sky, usually one of two on a parhelic circle on both sides of the sun (or occasionally above and below it), caused by the refraction of the sun's image through ice crystals.
    • December […] the 28th [1714], the Sun being an Hour high, appeared a Sun-Dog or Parhelion, the Sky full of flying Clouds.1749, Thomas Short, A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Longman, […]; and A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 474
    Synonyms:
    mock sun, parhelion

Forms of sundog

pluralsundogs

Questions about sundog

What is sundog the alternative form of?
Sundog is the alternative form of sun dog.

Words near sundog in the dictionary

  1. Sundin
  2. Sundins
  3. sundisk
  4. sundisks
  5. sundiusite
  6. sundog
  7. sundogs
  8. Sundon
  9. sundown
  10. sundown syndrome
  11. sundown town

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sundog (page history and authors); sun dog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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