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Road-edge spoiled, with battered corners
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dog-eared
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dog-eared \dog"-eared`\, a. Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book; as, an old book with dog-eared pages. Note: Making a page dog-eared is sometimes done deliberately to mark a location ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a page in a book English) Bent or slightly ragged in appearance, ''especially'' due to having been read many times. 2 (context of a page in a book English) Having the corner folded over, as a sort of bookmark.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ On the other wall was a dog-eared calendar with faded pictures. ▪ Professor Brightly walked into the lecture hall with a pile of dog-eared notes under his arm. ▪ Ruth clutched a dog-eared Bible in one hand.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages" [syn: eared ]
Usage examples of dog-eared.
He had been through his clothes carefully and sifted through endless pounds of mud from the grave that the two youths, Kin Pak and Dog-eared Chen, had dug.
Goodweather Poon held the flashlight as Kin Pak, Dog-eared Chen and Smallpox Kin searched.
At once the shovel in Poon's hands whirled in an arc and crunched into the back of Dog-eared Chen's head and he collapsed with a sigh on top of Kin Pak.
The book was Peter Marlowe's novel, Changi She had found the dog-eared paperback in one of the dozens of street bookstalls in an alley just north of the hotel yesterday morning.
She had found the dog-eared paperback in one of the dozens of street bookstalls in an alley just north of the hotel yesterday morning.
He handed the battered dog-eared copy of Plutarch's Lives back to Jordan.
They were dressed in their work clothes and the cards were dog-eared and greasy and the pot was a small pile of copper and worn silver.
By now the pages were dog-eared and grubby from the constant perusal to which Ralph had subjected it.
He went to the yellow wood cupboard and took out a stained and dog-eared document, so ragged that it had been pasted onto a backing to prevent it falling to pieces.
They sat late at each outspan over the ivory dice, or the greasy dog-eared pack of cards, and Ralph glowed when he won a shilling, and growled when he lost one.
He was standing, behind a counter, in front of a wall covered with dog-eared posters advertising extinct game platforms.