flop-eared
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flop-eared
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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When I met him, flop-eared goats and quarrelsome geese were rooting around on the floor, and the yard was strewn with pieces of dried rawhide that would be turned into chew toys for dogs.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2016
Brown-haired, flop-eared Margaret Sullavan plays Ray with pixy charm almost to exhaustion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound, whose flop-eared hero is one of the alltime favorites of American children, last spring won TV's Emmy Award for children's programing.
From Time Magazine Archive
His flop-eared hound Tyler has developed an incurable fondness for the main swimming pool on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico hills and also his master's warm bed, the instant Kissinger vacates it in the morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last Friday he Brought home a flop-eared pup with a drooping tail and an indefinite ancestry, explaining that he had come into possession of the aforementioned animal by the duly delivered purchase-price of thirty-seven cents.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
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