You've a lot of nerve, knife-ears. This'll go badly for you.
2010 January 5, Cynn Smith (@Cynnthetic), Twitter[2], archived from the original on 5 June 2024:
The city elf story in Dragon Age is loltastic. This game rules. Bloody knife ears...
2010, Nadia Oxford, "Digital Discrimination", GamePro, March 2010, page 70:
The elves [in Dragon Age: Origins] endure injustices such as racial slurs (humans call them “knife-ears”) and the crashing of wedding parties as humans exercise their right of the first night.
[2010 March 6, Superman (Red Son) (@Red_Son_), Twitter[3], archived from the original on 5 June 2024:
@_Neville_ That's fine. There are some humans who call me a mean term. They call me "Knife Ears".]
2010 April 7, George (@GiantEnemy), Twitter[4], archived from the original on 5 June 2024:
@biofeed Shepard. Because my Warden's a BIG STUPID KNIFE-EARS. Also nuclear weapons. #BiowareBazaar #Bioware
2010 June 11, Russ, “Re: View this page "The Adventure" This Fight's Dragon”, in Malignant Spirit of MaidenShire[5] (Google Groups), archived from the original on 2024-06-05:
"You want a prophecy dandelion eater?! Here's one for you knife ears: touch Shyam and I'll rip your God's damned face off and feed to you!" the near raging half orc bellowed standing in front of her.
[2010 December 31, Alim Surana (@KnifeEaredMage), Twitter[6], archived from the original on 5 June 2024:
I guess I told him when I first came here that we could be friends? And he could have my second helpings for not calling me "knife ears?"]
The elf seemed pretty upset when we started pawing at his stuff, especially the belt. Turns out it's some kind of heirloom. The knife-ear claimed that it came from Arlathan, that it had been in his family for generations.
2014, Patrick Weekes, Dragon Age: The Masked Empire, page 27:
“Trying to sneak around and dodge your duties, knife-ear?” he said with a sneer.
Whatever people thought or said about the elves, whatever slurs and indignities they hurled at the “knife ears,” they still had to acknowledge that they owed their nations survival and the existence of their lineages to his selfless slaying of the Archdemon Andoral.
2020, 616th Special Information Battalion (trans. ZackZeal), Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1, unnumbered page:
"Hard to believe the elves wiped out the Knights of Saint Augustine. Their captain was capable of summoning the angel, you know? How did a couple of knife-ears stand up to the Kingdom's strongest knights and an angel?”
2021, Daniel Jimenez, Venture:
The cafeteria fell into silence and everyone turned their faces towards the elf. “Damn knife ears,” someone mumbled. The twins looked at the man with glasses and pointy ears.
2022, O. C. Presley, Shadowrun: Kings of the Street, unnumbered pages:
"Get your ass in here. It's time you started acting like the chicano ork you are and not some pansy elf listening to Americano music by yourself all the time. That's what knife-ears do! Now get in here!"
Noun: "(fantasy, slang, possibly derogatory) the pointed ears of an elf"