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An earplug
From ear + plug.
earplug (plural earplugs)
- A piece of protective gear meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the wearer's hearing from loud noises or the intrusion of water.
protective clothing for the ear canal
- Bulgarian: тапа за уши (tapa za uši)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 耳塞 (zh) (ěrsāi), 耳栓 (ěrshuān)
- Czech: špunt do ucha m
- Danish: øreprop (da) c
- Dutch: oordopje (nl) n
- Faroese: oyrnaproppur m
- Finnish: korvatulppa (fi)
- French: bouchon d’oreille (fr) m
- German: Ohropax n, Ohrenstöpsel (de) m, Ohrstöpsel (de) m
- Greek: ωτασπίδα (el) (otaspída)
- Hungarian: füldugó (hu)
- Icelandic: eyrnatappi (is) m
- Indonesian: sumbat telinga
- Japanese: 耳栓 (ja) (みみせん, mimisen)
- Malay: penyumbat telinga
- Maori: purutaringa
- Navajo: jaayiʼ abínágiłí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: øreplugg m, ørepropp m
- Nynorsk: øyreplugg m, øyrepropp m
- Polish: zatyczka do uszu f
- Russian: беру́ши (ru) pl (berúši), заты́чка для уше́й f (zatýčka dlja ušéj)
- Spanish: tapón para los oídos m, tapón auricular m, tapón auditivo m, tapón auditorio m, tapón acústico m
- Swedish: öronpropp (sv) c
- Turkish: kulak tıkacı (tr)
- Ukrainian: затичка для вуха f (zatyčka dlja vuxa)
- Vietnamese: nút tai, bịt tai
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earplug (third-person singular simple present earplugs, present participle earplugging, simple past and past participle earplugged)
- (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.
