"knife ear" meaning in English

See knife ear in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: knife ears [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} knife ear (plural knife ears)
  1. (fantasy, slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of knife-ear. Tags: alt-of, alternative, derogatory, slang Alternative form of: knife-ear Categories (topical): Fantasy, Mythological creatures
    Sense id: en-knife_ear-en-noun-uhntadKJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: fantasy

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for knife ear meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knife ears",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knife ear (plural knife ears)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "knife-ear"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fantasy",
          "orig": "en:Fantasy",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mythological creatures",
          "orig": "en:Mythological creatures",
          "parents": [
            "Fantasy",
            "Mythology",
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Culture",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Society",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Liane Merciel, Dragon Age: Last Flight Deluxe Edition, page 152",
          "text": "Whatever people thought or said about the elves, whatever slurs and indignities they hurled at the “knife ears,” they still had to acknowledge that they owed their nations survival and the existence of their lineages to his selfless slaying of the Archdemon Andoral.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Daniel Jimenez, Venture",
          "text": "The cafeteria fell into silence and everyone turned their faces towards the elf. “Damn knife ears,” someone mumbled. The twins looked at the man with glasses and pointy ears.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of knife-ear."
      ],
      "id": "en-knife_ear-en-noun-uhntadKJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "knife-ear",
          "knife-ear#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fantasy, slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of knife-ear."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knife ear"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knife ears",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knife ear (plural knife ears)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "knife-ear"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Fantasy",
        "en:Mythological creatures"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Liane Merciel, Dragon Age: Last Flight Deluxe Edition, page 152",
          "text": "Whatever people thought or said about the elves, whatever slurs and indignities they hurled at the “knife ears,” they still had to acknowledge that they owed their nations survival and the existence of their lineages to his selfless slaying of the Archdemon Andoral.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Daniel Jimenez, Venture",
          "text": "The cafeteria fell into silence and everyone turned their faces towards the elf. “Damn knife ears,” someone mumbled. The twins looked at the man with glasses and pointy ears.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of knife-ear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "knife-ear",
          "knife-ear#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fantasy, slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of knife-ear."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knife ear"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.