dog-ear
noun/ˈdɒɡɪə/UK/ˈdɔɡˌɪ(ə)ɹ/US
Etymology
The noun is a variant of dog's-ear, from dog + -’s + ear, due to the similarity of their appearance to the folded ears of certain dogs. The verb is either: * directly from dog + ear; * a back-formation from dog-eared; or * a variant of dog's-ear (verb).
Definitions
The folded corner of the page of a book or other publication, either due to having been…
The folded corner of the page of a book or other publication, either due to having been read many times or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.
To fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication).
- His eyes went to his book and stayed there long enough to finish a paragraph. He dog-eared it and put it down.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dog-ear. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA