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

Brown-haired, flop-eared Margaret Sullavan plays Ray with pixy charm almost to exhaustion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thin, stooped, flop-eared Howard Worth Smith sits in big, comfortable chairs, and nobody puts even a small tack in them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Short-legged, flop-eared beagles sniffed into brush-piles and thickets, set up a howl when they flushed a rabbit, worked it back before the hunters' guns.

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