Idioms

jug-eared

jug-eared

Having ears that stick out markedly from the side of the head, thus resembling the handles of a jug. I was pretty goofy-looking as a kid, jug-eared, bespectacled, and lanky as I was.
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References in periodicals archive
But just tell Wigan fans that beating City to win the great jug-eared trophy is impossible.
Not that Thomas needs to come of age, being already in his 20s -- but he's "an innocent, a child," says Johanna tenderly; jug-eared, bespectacled, a boy without mystery.
Condo, painting in his characteristic style of measured bravura, fragments his subject, overlaying a jug-eared male head with a smaller, grinning, masklike second one, then embedding a meat cleaver in the skulls of both, the hatchet's silvery parallelogram an ersatz cubist plane.
SELDOM do I feel any great concern for the Queen or the various jug-eared, vacant-eyed misfits who make up her benefit-scrounging family and who, were they not privileged, would surely be prime candidates to appear on the Jeremy Kyle Show.
Seriously, though, never thought I'd have a kind word to say for the jug-eared crisps salesman, but one of his old tweets was an absolute classic.
On the eve of the US prez election, Andrew Marr looks at another jug-eared guy, and talks to White House staff and those who've worked with him.
THE STORY: Helprin's novel is a comic allegory of Freddy, the overeducated, awkward, jug-eared Prince of Wales, and his frivolous, vapid wife Fredericka.
In one, she wears her trademark grin while beside a jug-eared, wrinkly creature with dodgy teeth.
With the rain pouring down and Chelsea needing just one successful kick for the jug-eared trophy, the Blues captain fell flat on his backside and saw his shot hit the post.
Lampooned for his flashy tastes, the puppet Sarkozy is the "bling-bling" president, a jug-eared, diminutive figure who jabbers on about the price of his Rolex watch and the beauty of his husky-voiced first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Don't worry, the BBC host hasn't donned Lycra and cape to fly through the air like a jug-eared superhero.
A lean, jug-eared forever-young son in Marine dress blues smiled from the photo, but at the counter, his mother wept.
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