Citations:round-ear

English citations of round-ear

Noun: "(fantasy, slang, often derogatory) a human or half-human"

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• 1987, Piers Anthony, Dragon's Gold, page 205:

  He was interested to learn of Heln, the female round-ear.

• 1992, Katharine Kerr, A Time of Exile, page 331:

  He’s a good man, the only Round-ear I ever really liked — well, besides you, but then, you’re not really a Round-ear.

• 1993, Richard Pini, Dark Hours: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, page 296:

  Even though the round-ear wore a short, loose deerskin tunic, awkwardly stitched and beaded, Bearclaw could tell that the body beneath was almost as slender and fragilely boned as an elf’s, with the exception of the big hands and clumsy feet.

• 2000, John M. Ford, The Last Hot Time, page 26:

  "Conflict, I'd say. And there's always conflict. War, now, well. They'll cut each other up as easily as a round-ear. You heard there were gang elves in the club tonight: they can come right in as long as they follow the rules. Not like the pure-Ellyll clubs."

• 2008, Gillian Summers, Into the Wildewood, page 324:

  Keelie shrugged. “The dinner is for the full-blood elves, is what he means. No Round Ears need attend. I don’t care. My friends are here.”

• 2009, David J. Babulski, Adventures of Piffels the Elf, page 84:

  Sometimes fate takes interesting turns, for just at that instant Esmenia was collecting seeds in the back garden. She looked up to see the little pink Round Ear wrapping a leaf around herself.

• 2011, Sam Sykes, Tome of the Undergates, page 22:

  ‘You stinking, cowardly round-ear,’ she snarled, baring her canines at him.

• 2017, Jon Hollins, The Dragon Lords: False Idols, page 229:

  "Shut up, round-ear," he barked back. There were a couple of laughs at that. And a few of the elves did look like they thought making a cage of human limbs could be a fun way to pass the time.