flop-eared

American  

[flop-eerd] / ˈflɒpˌɪərd /

adjective

1. having long, drooping ears, as a hound.

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Etymology

Origin of flop-eared

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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

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

Kentuckians were more worried about C. V. Whitney's Virginia-bred Phalanx, a flop-eared bay with a peculiar hobbyhorse stride.

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

One day she went for a ride on a flop-eared mule; he got tired and lay down and rolled over and over in the sand.

From I Married a Ranger by Smith, Dama Margaret