prick-eared
Americanadjective
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having the ears upright and pointed.
a prick-eared dog.
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British.
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Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short.
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Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads.
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Archaic. priggish.
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Etymology
Origin of prick-eared
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
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A few years earlier, it was a group of Bedford, N.H., seventh-graders who brought a prick-eared, frizzy-coated breed known as the Chinook to the attention of that state’s legislature.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2012
He smiled at the keen look of alert, prick-eared attention which the other was still giving to that room!
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The differences between the prick-eared Skye and the drop-eared are so slight, and the characteristics which they have in common are so many, that a dual classification was hardly necessary.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
Beneath that urbane mask of his, a hunted, wild thing poised in question, mistrustful of the very wind, prick-eared, fangs agleam, eyes grimly apprehensive….
From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
The lop-eared rabbit is a stately beast and less brisk than his prick-eared relations.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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