Jan 27, 2022 10:06
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Swedish term

slokörad

Swedish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
What is a slokörad?

En av de franska damerna har hittat träfigurinerna och håller upp en rätt stor slokörad.

Discussion

SafeTex Jan 29, 2022:
droopy -eared or flappy ears Dogs and cats might pull their ears back but we would not say a droopy or flappy in that case and even if we did, we simply don't use such phrases for humans.
But we do have other "animal" phrases like "to have ones tail between ones legs" albeit I'm not sure we would even use that for a woman (or a doll of a woman)

And "flappy ears" is more for Dumbo the Elephant who could fly

All that to say that I don't see how the ear expressions suggested can be acceptable

Proposed translations

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one with flappy ears/a hanging head

Slokörad is an adjective, so it's 'en rätt stor (träfigurin som är) slokörad'. If it's an animal it might have flappy ears, if it's a person though it could be that they have a hanging head so it depends what the wooden figurines are of. See the SAOB entry below.
Peer comment(s):

agree EKM
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[literally] droopy-eared [figuratively] sheepish, disheartened

Depends on the context. With only this context, it *could* indicate the figurine has droopy ears (the literal meaning of slokörad is 'droopy-eared', from the verb 'att sloka' - 'to droop').

However, more often than not, 'slokörad' tends to be used figuratively, along the lines of 'sheepish'/'disheartened'/'disappointed'/'dispirited'. So in your example sentence, it could also mean, speculatively, that they had paid a lot of money for similar wooden figurines earlier, and now found cheaper ones at this location, which might make the French lady 'slokörad' in the figurative sense.
Peer comment(s):

agree Adrian MM. : slokörad: 'lop-eared; bildl. crestfallen' > Prisma.
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agree SafeTex : I like "sheepish" to keep the animal analogy
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agree Michele Fauble
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