dog's-ear

dog's-ear (plural dog's-ears)

1. Obsolete form of dog-ear.

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

1. Obsolete form of dog-ear.
   • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals, Act I, Scene II,

     […] Lady Slattern Lounger, who had just sent it home, had so soiled and dog's-eared it, it wa'n't fit for a Christian to read.

• dog ears, dog-ears, dogears, goaders