English

a dog-ear (1)

Noun

dog-ear ‎(plural dog-ears)

1. folded corner of a page (as from a book or magazine, so as to mark one's place)

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Verb

dog-ear ‎(third-person singular simple present dog-ears, present participle dog-earing, simple past and past participle dog-eared)

1. To fold the corner of a book's page.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 164:

     His eyes went to his book and stayed there long enough to finish a paragraph. He dog-eared it and put it down.

Alternative forms

• dog's-ear (obsolete)

Derived terms

• dog-eared

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References

• The Free Dictionary

Anagrams

• o-grade