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jug ears en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-only) Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.
    • 2007, "The Next Crusade", John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 4 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy. Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears, hazel eyes, a furrowed brow, and thinning gray hair that he combs to the right. -

Relateds

jug-eared

Translations (5)

pt orelhas de abano (markedly outward sticking ears) · de Segelohren (markedly outward sticking ears) · cmn 招风耳 (markedly outward sticking ears) · fi hörökorvat (markedly outward sticking ears) · nl flaporen (markedly outward sticking ears)