“To find a shaft of sunlight pouring through a window on a cold winter day, curl up in the puddle of warmth it creates on the rug, and doze with doglike dereliction”

SPANIEL

(English)

From Diane Ackerman who gives the word a new meaning in An Alchemy of Mind, elaborating:
“I think I’ll just spaniel for an hour or so before I begin work,” she said.”

Original meaning:
1: a member of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized mostly short-legged dogs usually having long wavy hair, feathered legs and tail, and large drooping ears
2: a fawning servile person

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