† ear-rentn.

Forms: 1600s eare-rent, 1600s ear-rent.

Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ear n.³, rent n.¹

Etymology: Perhaps originally < ear n.³ + rent n.¹, although used punningly with allusion to ear n.¹ Compare ear-rentingly adv. at ear n.¹ Compounds 2.

Obsolete.

(a) The loss of a person's ears in the pillory. (b) The figurative cost to a person of listening to trivial or incessant talk.Perhaps with punning allusion to a literal sense referring to a kind of agricultural rent, although no evidence for this has been found.

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1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. B3 Raskalls, Would runne themselues from breath, to see..you t' haue but a Hole, to thrust your heads in, For which you should pay Eare-rent .

1630 P. Massinger Renegado iii. ii. sig. F3^v You speake not tempests, nor take eare-rent from A poore shopkeeper. Doe you remember that sir, I weare your marks heere still.

a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 135 I am so confident..that I wish you and I might plead it on a Pillory, and he that lost the day pay Ear-rent for us both.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	ear-rent
释义	† ear-rentn. Forms: 1600s eare-rent, 1600s ear-rent. Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ear n.³, rent n.¹ Etymology: Perhaps originally < ear n.³ + rent n.¹, although used punningly with allusion to ear n.¹ Compare ear-rentingly adv. at ear n.¹ Compounds 2. Obsolete. (a) The loss of a person's ears in the pillory. (b) The figurative cost to a person of listening to trivial or incessant talk.Perhaps with punning allusion to a literal sense referring to a kind of agricultural rent, although no evidence for this has been found. ΚΠ 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. B3 Raskalls, Would runne themselues from breath, to see..you t' haue but a Hole, to thrust your heads in, For which you should pay Eare-rent . View more context for this quotation 1630 P. Massinger Renegado iii. ii. sig. F3^v You speake not tempests, nor take eare-rent from A poore shopkeeper. Doe you remember that sir, I weare your marks heere still. a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 135 I am so confident..that I wish you and I might plead it on a Pillory, and he that lost the day pay Ear-rent for us both. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1612
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