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
The champion handicap horse of 1944 is a flop-eared tomboy that her friends call Susie.
From Time Magazine Archive
With evident satisfaction, Israel's Chief Investigator Abraham Selinger reported that the thin, flop-eared ex-Gestapo leader�who had proclaimed that he would kill himself if he were ever captured�was the most "cooperative" suspect he had ever interrogated.
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
The sheep is the big, hornless, flop-eared huniya.
From Among the Tibetans by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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