Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a dewlap, or a similar appendage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with a dewlap.
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- adjective Having
dewlaps (of a specified kind).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bardwell, in a way, started it by quoting from Thoreau; but it was old Trefethan, bald-headed and dewlapped, who took up the quotation and for the hour to come was romance incarnate.
The Night-Born 2010
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In “The Break,” a virtuoso comic performance that first appeared in the Spring 1994 issue of Antaeus, her younger self (who goes by the Hebrew name of Shoshana) solemnly announces her disengagement from the “white-haired, dewlapped, thick-waisted, thick-lensed hag” (who goes by the Greek name of Cynthia) — a writer disgustingly devoid of that hunger for success that drives great artists.
Cynthia Ozick. 2009
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Miss Keeldar owned such a herd - all deep-dewlapped,
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It seemed as if half the marines owned at least one dog, as did some of the crew; there were liver-colored hounds, dewlapped bulldogs, silly spaniels, terriers and a great many mongrels.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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It seemed as if half the marines owned at least one dog, as did some of the crew; there were liver-colored hounds, dewlapped bulldogs, silly spaniels, terriers and a great many mongrels.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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But by the time I met Frank he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion.
Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995
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There were giraffes, too, peering over the tops of the acacias, and agile, lyre-horned impala, gazelles with their dark painted eyes, and the gentle, dewlapped eland.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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There were giraffes, too, peering over the tops of the acacias, and agile, lyre-horned impala, gazelles with their dark painted eyes, and the gentle, dewlapped eland.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Her cheeks were plump and dewlapped and her eyes, which were of a pale watery blue, were hooded.
The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991
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He was a red-faced, dewlapped man in his early thirties, head of the firm of Masterson, Roach and Roach.
Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966
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