earlid

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English

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Etymology

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From ear +‎ lid.

Noun

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earlid (plural earlids)

  1. An imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.
    • 2008, Glenn Murphy, How Loud Can You Burp?, page 22:
      But wouldn't earlids be useful too? Possibly. But not so useful that without them earlid-less animals would die out []
    • 2009, Seth Kim-Cohen, In the blink of an ear: toward a non-cochlear sonic art, page xx:
      There is no such thing as an earlid. The ear is always open, always supplementing its primary materiality, always multiplying the singularity of perception into the plurality of experience.
    • 2009 June 23, Natalie Angier, “When an Ear Witness Decides the Case”, in New York Times[1]:
      But when one neighbor’s leaf blower sets off another neighbor’s car alarm, hey, where are my earlids?

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