ear-piercingly
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ear-piercing + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]ear-piercingly (comparative more ear-piercingly, superlative most ear-piercingly)
- In an ear-piercing manner; at an ear-piercing volume.
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:
- The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.