crop-eared

[ krop-eerd ]

adjective

1. having the ears cropped.
2. having the hair cropped short, so that the ears are conspicuous.

crop-eared

adjective

1. having the ears or hair cut short

Word History and Origins

Origin of crop-eared¹

First recorded in 1520–30

Example Sentences

The alaund, a big, crop-eared dog, is in the 15th-century shield of John Woode of Kent, and “kenets,” or little tracking dogs, in a 13th-century coat of Kenet.

From Project Gutenberg

Unless at home he had had an early introduction to stable and kennel management, that sort of learning could not be acquired in after-life; his love for his “crop-eared roan,” the descriptions in so many places of his devotion to horses and hounds, he knows them all by name. 

From Project Gutenberg

But as to a youth in love nothing that his mistress chooses to do seems long amiss, so this proposal scared me for a moment only; after which it cost my mistress no more than a little rallying on my crop-eared manners, and some scolding, to make me see it in its true aspect of an innocent frolic, fraught with as much pleasure to the cavalier as novelty to the escorted.

From Project Gutenberg

But crop-eared you were and crop-eared you are; one of Shaftesbury's brisk boys, my lord!

From Project Gutenberg

"Crop-eared knaves, my lord, half of them, and I one!" he cried, as we came to a halt a little within the door, to await his pleasure--I with shaking knees and sinking heart.

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