lop-eared

1. 1.

   having bent or drooping ears

   “a lop-eared hound”

   Similareared

Questions about lop-eared

What does lop-eared mean?

lop-eared means "having bent or drooping ears".

How many syllables are in lop-eared?

lop-eared has 3 syllables and divides as lo-p-ea-red under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is lop-eared a common word?

lop-eared is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.