eartrumpet

English

Noun

eartrumpet (plural eartrumpets)

1. Alternative form of ear trumpet
   • 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:

     The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

   • 2001, Dudley Pope, Convoy, page 259:

     'I was thinking that an old lady wouldn't try and compete with a brass band by shouting into an eartrumpet...'

   • 2013, István Jász, Ripples of Time, page 107:

     Anna Kohlmann puts down the eartrumpet and admires herself in the mirror.