• Dog-ear

    Full definition of dog-ear

    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)

    Verb

    1. To fold the corner of a book's page.
      • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in , October 1994 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.

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