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Meaning of jug ears | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.

idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Deutsch Segelohren
Suomi hörökorvat
Nederlands flaporen
Português orelhas de abano

Examples

“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. -”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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