eared en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɪəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɪ(ə)ɹd/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Old English ēare Middle English ere English ear Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English eared From ear + -ed.
Meanings
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Having ears (of a specified type).
What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?
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: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, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47143/47143-h/47143-h.htm Teach me with quick-eared spirit to rejoice / In admonitions of thy softest voice!
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.
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: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; […]
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:Tho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity,
1796, Nicholas Brady, Nahum Tate, A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Church, London: H.D. Symonds, Psalm, 126 verse 6, p. 81:He was a large-eared man.
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.
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(not-comparable) Having ears.
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.
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:
Deriveds
short-eared zorro · uneared · flap-eared · long-eared guinea pig · Dumbo-eared · hairy-eared dwarf lemur · lop-eared · flop-eared · long-eared bat · earedness · long-eared jerboa · big-eared · drop-eared · white-eared honeyeater · bat-eared fox · jug-eared · round-eared tube-nosed bat · short-eared fox · mouse-eared · short-eared owl · hook-eared sculpin · red-eared slider · blue-eared kingfisher · greater mouse-eared bat · red-eared terrapin · closed-eared · red-eared turtle · white-eared parakeet · dog's-eared · small-eared dog · eared seal · long-eared · rabbit-eared bandicoot · short-eared dog · dog eared · chestnut-eared finch · dogeared · hook-eared · tin-eared · eared pheasant · tassel-eared squirrel · chestnut-eared bunting · long-eared owl · bare-eared squirrel monkey · small-eared galago · eared owl · cloth-eared · mouse-eared bat · open-eared · dog-eared · rabbit-eared · eared leafhopper · tulip-eared · pink-eared duck · eared grebe · close-eared · long-eared fox · western black-eared wheatear · prick-eared · hookeared
Translations (9)
hu füles (having some specific type of ear) · fr oreillard (having some specific type of ear) · fi -korvainen (having some specific type of ear) · es orejudo (having some specific type of ear) · es orejón (having some specific type of ear) · cy clustiog (having some specific type of ear) · tr kulaklı (having some specific type of ear) · ca orellut (having some specific type of ear) · pt orelhudo (having some specific type of ear)