creative use of "little"?

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> it's just coincidental that the dog was literally little.

I'm not sure, in that case, that it's the same use of "little.". We
know that the dog *is* literally "little." But, is it literally
"mangy"?
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