jug ears

English

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Noun

jug ears pl (plural only)

1. (idiomatic) Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.
   • 2007, "The Next Crusade", John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 4 [1].

     Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears, hazel eyes, a furrowed brow, and thinning gray hair that he combs to the right. -

Related terms

• jug-eared

Translations

markedly outward sticking ears

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招风耳 (zhāofēng'ěr)

• Dutch: flaporen (nl) pl
• Finnish: hörökorvat pl
• German: Segelohren n pl
• Portuguese: orelhas de abano f pl