eared

English

Etymology

From ear +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪəd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪ(ə)ɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d

Adjective

eared (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in combination) Having ears (of a specified type).

   He was a large-eared man.

   • 1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B, verso:

     What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?

   • 1796, Nicholas Brady, Nahum Tate, A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Church‎^[1], London: H.D. Symonds, Psalm, 126 verse 6, p. 81:

     Tho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity,

   • 1835, William Wordsworth, "On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland," line 19-20, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by William Knight, Volume VII, London: Macmillan & Co., 1896, [2]

     Teach me with quick-eared spirit to rejoice / In admonitions of thy softest voice!

   • 1879, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 41:

     Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; […]

   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 103:

     He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down.

   • 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Perennial Classics, 2002, Part Two, Chapter 28, p. 305,

     Some of his rural clients would park their long-eared steeds under the chinaberry trees in the back yard, and Atticus would keep appointments on the back steps.

2. Having ears.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[3], London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:

     But for his other guests he let bear in the massy cups of silver, and the great eared wine jars holding two firkins apiece, and he let pour forth to the Witches and the Foliots, and they drank the cup of memory unto King Gorice XI., slain that day by the hand of Goldry Bluszco.

Derived terms

• bare-eared squirrel monkey
• bat-eared fox
• big-eared
• blue-eared kingfisher
• chestnut-eared bunting
• closed-eared
• close-eared
• cloth-eared
• dog-eared
• dog eared
• dogeared
• dog's-eared
• eared leafhopper
• earedness
• eared owl
• eared seal
• flap-eared
• flop-eared
• greater mouse-eared bat
• hairy-eared dwarf lemur
• hook-eared
• hookeared
• hook-eared sculpin
• jug-eared
• long-eared
• long-eared bat
• long-eared fox
• long-eared guinea pig
• long-eared owl
• lop-eared
• mouse-eared bat
• open-eared
• pink-eared duck
• prick-eared
• rabbit-eared
• rabbit-eared bandicoot
• red-eared slider
• red-eared terrapin
• red-eared turtle
• round-eared tube-nosed bat
• short-eared dog
• short-eared fox
• short-eared owl
• short-eared zorro
• small-eared dog
• small-eared galago
• tassel-eared squirrel
• tin-eared
• tulip-eared
• uneared
• western black-eared wheatear
• white-eared parakeet

Translations

having some specific type of ear

• Finnish: -korvainen
• Hungarian: füles (hu)
• Turkish: kulaklı (tr)
• Welsh: clustiog

Verb

eared

1. simple past and past participle of ear

Anagrams

• Reade, adree, deare, areed, Ardee