"dog's-eared" meaning in English

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      "form": "more dog's-eared",
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      "form": "most dog's-eared",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop:",
          "text": "There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1879, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 267:",
          "text": "He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131,\n[…] The carpet there, the table\nOn which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars,\nThe cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones,\nAnd the long window lustred with changing rain,\nAnd the long day, profound and termless."
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        "Obsolete form of dog-eared."
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  "word": "dog's-eared"
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      "form": "more dog's-eared",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most dog's-eared",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1879, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 267:",
          "text": "He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131,\n[…] The carpet there, the table\nOn which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars,\nThe cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones,\nAnd the long window lustred with changing rain,\nAnd the long day, profound and termless."
        }
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