earplug

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Etymology

ear +‎ plug

Noun

earplug (plural earplugs)

1. A piece of protective clothing that is meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the wearer's hearing from loud noises or the intrusion of water.

Translations

protective clothing for the ear canal

• Bulgarian: тапа за уши (bg) (tapa za uši)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳塞 (cmn) (ěrsāi), 耳栓 (cmn) (ěrshuān)

• Finnish: korvatulppa (fi)
• French: bouchon d’oreille (fr) m

• German: Ohropax (de) n, Ohrenstöpsel (de) m, Ohrstöpsel (de) m
• Greek: ωτασπίδα (el) (otaspída)
• Japanese: 耳栓 (ja) (みみせん, mimisen)
• Russian: беруши (ru) (berúši) pl , затычка для ушей (ru) (zatýčka dlja ušéj) f 
• Spanish: tapón (es) m, tapón para los oídos m

Verb

earplug (third-person singular simple present earplugs, present participle earplugging, simple past and past participle earplugged)

1. (transitive) To fit with earplugs.
   • 1975, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 8

     In this same strain of mouse, earplugging from 17-22 days postpartum is effective in inducing susceptibility to audiogenic seizures...

   • 1992, Robin Cody, Ricochet river

     There wasn't much I could tell him, earplugged, but I crawled into turbine number 3 and waved him on in.

See also

• earmuffs

Anagrams

• graupel