Jug Ears Meaning

(idiomatic) Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.

Example: 2007, "The Next Crusade", John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 4 [1].
  Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears, hazel eyes, a furrowed brow, and thinning gray hair that he combs to the right. -