Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having broad, loose, flapping ears.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having broad, loose, dependent ears.
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Examples
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Glancing through the front window, Nadya saw the heavily bundled woman barreling toward the tavern; her head, covered in a flap-eared khaki-green woolen hat, was bowed against the swirls of blowing snow.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Glancing through the front window, Nadya saw the heavily bundled woman barreling toward the tavern; her head, covered in a flap-eared khaki-green woolen hat, was bowed against the swirls of blowing snow.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Glancing through the front window, Nadya saw the heavily bundled woman barreling toward the tavern; her head, covered in a flap-eared khaki-green woolen hat, was bowed against the swirls of blowing snow.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Glancing through the front window, Nadya saw the heavily bundled woman barreling toward the tavern; her head, covered in a flap-eared khaki-green woolen hat, was bowed against the swirls of blowing snow.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Mary could make out Mitchell Cohen at the wheel, wearing his usual, flap-eared Russian fur hat.
Black Friday Patterson, James 1986
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Mary could make out Mitchell Cohen at the wheel, wearing his usual, flap-eared Russian fur hat.
Black Friday Patterson, James 1986
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That flap-eared engineer's bicycle works — and so does he while riding it.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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Thus in a few minutes Hazel fared forth, wrapped in Bill's fur coat, a flap-eared cap on her head, and on her feet several pairs of stockings inside moccasins that Bill had procured from some mysterious source a day or two before.
North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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He saw that Claire was angry; but that the Gilsons and Mrs. Corey, flap-eared, gape-mouthed, forward-bending, were very proud of their little Jeff.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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'The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington,' while the leering rascals in the pilot coats and the flap-eared caps huddled together over their filthy tables, and swigged their strong drink and thumbed their greasy cards and swore horribly in all the lingoes of Babel.
Marjorie 1898
ruzuzu commented on the word flap-eared
There's just one difference between these definitions, but it's a fun one:
"Having broad, loose, flapping ears."
--Century Dictionary
"Having broad, loose, dependent ears."
--GNU Webster's 1913
March 15, 2011
bilby commented on the word flap-eared
Those desert winds are the bane of my existence.
March 16, 2011