Definition of Earfuls

1. Noun. (plural of earful) ¹

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Definition of Earfuls

1. earful [n] - See also: earful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Earfuls

eardrop
eardrops
eardrum
eardrums
eards
eare
eared
eared grebe
eared seal
eared seals
earedness
eares
earflap
earflaps
earful
earfuls (current term)
eargasm
eargasmic
eargasms
earhole
earholes
earing
earings
earl
earl marshal
earlandite
earlap
earlaps
earldom
earldoms

Literary usage of Earfuls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nineteenth Century Letters by Byron Johnson Rees (1919)
"So the rain let me get back dry from the beach, whither I had gone for a whiff of salt air and a few earfuls of that muffled crash of the surf which is so ..."

2. The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature Far from the Travellers by Clarence Ludlow Brownell (1903)
"O uta utau nasai" should be translated " Bring me two earfuls of cotton." With your ears well stuffed you may listen to gaku without going mad. ..."

3. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"The seed vessel is formed of three or five earfuls, somewhat diverging, containing numerous angular, wrinkled seeds. The leaves are palmately divided into ..."

4. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1888)
"... a natural cubic centimeter table; thus : so many earfuls make a mouthful, so many mouthfuls make a bellyful, etc. Something Like Simulation. ..."

5. Letters of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904)
"... whither I had gone for a whiff" of salt air and a few earfuls of that muffled crash of the surf which is so soothing— perpetual ruin with perpetual ..."

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