crop-eared

I give him my supper because he was hungry, and he ate it all, and called me a crop-eared rebel for my pains.

D—n me, it shall never be said in my time that the —th suffered a crop-eared Irishman to preach to them in their own mess-room!

Close beside her were crop-eared Grip and Grapple, looking up at the line above them where hairy neck and shoulder joined.

In other words, his ace was Crop-eared José, and his ace was not destined to be unsupported by other trump cards.

There was that commanding trump—his knowledge, his unsuspected knowledge of the whereabouts of Crop-eared José.