单词 | earhole |
释义 | earholen. 1. The external opening of the ear canal; = ear opening n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] > cavity earholec1350 alveary1615 concha1683 conch1831 c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 3* Lapet oraile et molet, Dewelappe here and herehole. ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes xlii. sig. divv/1 A meruelous beste is critecus the whiche dwelleth in the erth..& it hath none eares but it hathe eare holes. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 109 Have very small Ears, and Ear-holes, as the Cetaceous Fishes have. 1731 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds I. 9 The Ear-holes three times as big as those of the White Owls. 1863 Anthropol. Rev. 1 32 The great naturalist was right..as to the abstract possibility of fastening earrings into a crocodile's ear-holes. 1966 New Statesman 25 Feb. 265/2 [In the Wallis Islands] a man can be fined two dollars for entering church with a piece of tobacco stuck in his earhole. 1998 H. Strachan Way Up Way Out i. 3 The pursed-up lips, like a mouse's earhole, confirmed without speech something that was new to me. 2. slang. The ear itself.In quot. 1843 with reference to a dog's ear, in the context of a dog fight. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] earOE listc1380 sousea1658 concha1683 auricula1691 wattle1699 listener1821 conch1831 earhole1843 tab1866 auricle1874 1843 Bell's Life in London 5 Feb. Spring got a decided advantage in an ear-hole catch, and gave him two good throws. 1847 Era 21 Nov. 5/3 His adversary slugged him on the left earhole. 1869 Temple Bar Mar. 542 He..enforced his arguments by giving his opponent what the convicts called a punch in the ear-hole, and extracting the claret from the most prominent feature in his ‘counting-house’. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 27 I'll give yer a clip 'longside the ear'ole if you ain't careful. 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang (at cited word) Give 'im a plug in the ear-hole! 1962 John o' London's 11 Jan. 27/3 Before you know it you'll be out on your earhole. 2005 J. Martyn Ringfort to Runway i. i. 1 Jimmy Reilly..learned American as a kid.., and later ‘goddam’ ‘sonofabitch’ and ‘mothersomething’ which his father cut short with a clip around the ear-hole. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1350 |
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