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Definition of Dog-ear
1. Noun. A corner of a page turned down to mark your place.
Definition of Dog-ear
1. Noun. folded corner of a page (as from a book or magazine, so as to mark one's place) ¹
2. Verb. To fold the corner of a book's page. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog-ear
Literary usage of Dog-ear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nucleation of the Uncontaminated Atmosphere by Carl Barus (1906)
"He told her to pinch the dog's ear and see if it would howl like a real dog.
The woman pinched the dog's ear and it howled like a dog. ..."
2. Traditions of the Caddo: Collected Under the Auspices of the Carnegie by George Amos Dorsey (1905)
"He told her to pinch the dog's ear and see if it would howl like a real dog.
The woman pinched the dog's ear and it howled like a dog. ..."
3. Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on by George Payn Quackenbos (1874)
"The words monk's-hood and dog's-ear will serve as examples of the second case
mentioned in the rule. Leave out the hyphen, and we no longer have the ..."
4. Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases by James Main Dixon (1891)
"To dog-ear a book—to turn down time corners of its pages so that they resemble a
... P. They are quite young girls, who blot their books, dog-ear their ..."
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