flop-eared

[ flop-eerd ]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of flop-eared¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

His current incarnation, as Grampy Hodie, is a bespectacled voice of wisdom who looks far cuddlier than his flop-eared, toothy 1960s self.

From New York Times

Last November, Shaun Reed, 32, drove up a winding road in Ione, Calif. In the back of the vehicle, unperturbed by the journey to the old gold-rush town, rode a flop-eared, cocoa-colored goat.

From New York Times

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

I arrived in Saint Louis one evening—just in time to let an old flop-eared Jew take me in to the extent of a hundred dollars for a lot of snide jewelry and a Jim-Crow suit of clothes.

From Project Gutenberg

Even King Wenceslaus would call this night cruel, but I am going back out to see totality … and to walk my big flop-eared hunting dog, so I don’t have to do it at daybreak.

From New York Times