| 释义 |
ear-bash, v. trans. and intr. slang (chiefly Austral.).|ˈɪəbæʃ|
[f. ear n.1 + bash v.2]
To talk inordinately (to someone). Hence ear-bashing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ear-basher, a chatterer; a bore.
1944L. Glassop We were Rats xxxvi. 205 ‘Time for you bastards to do some spine bashing,’ said one. ‘Are you going to sit there ear bashing all night?’ 1944R. J. Oakes in Austral. Short Stories (1951) 374 The little ear-bashing engineer would take him along. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned iii. 22 She was ear-bashing me all over tea. 1955‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren (1956) v. 121 The Commander escaped after a quarter of an hour of ear-bashing. 1956S. Hope Diggers' Paradise xvii. 157 Most golf clubs have a share of ‘ear-bashers’ as the Aussies call the type who verbally replay their strokes ad nauseum [sic] at the ‘nineteenth’. 1957I. Cross God Boy (1958) x. 81 We went on ear-bashing each other like that for the next hour or so. 1962Daily Tel. 24 Nov. 1/6 (heading) Ear-bashing exercise by Mr. Wigg. [Ibid., Mr. Wigg bashes the ear as once he bashed the square.] 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse II. 32 Ear-basher, one who talks too much; a garrulous person. |