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.

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
• dog's-eared
• eared leafhopper
• eared owl
• eared seal
• flap-eared
• flop-eared
• greater mouse-eared bat
• hairy-eared dwarf lemur
• 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
• tulip-eared
• 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, areed, deare