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ear-piercing

[ eer-peer-sing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

ear piercing

the making of a hole in the lobe of an ear, using a sterilized needle, so that an earring may be worn fastened in the hole

First recorded in 1595–1605

Is it true that I am the only person who has ever been interviewed twice [ear-piercing whistle] by Playboy?

All that Huck Finn innocence was wiped out with one ear-piercing pig-like squeal.

I once even got detention for telling a new male classmate with an ear piercing he probably had AIDS.

Then with one loud ear-piercing shriek thrown back on the wind—see!

His rhetoric was set forth with an ear-piercing elocution, and a voice that sometimes crashed like cannon.

Bill Hayes, he of the gray mustache and the ear-piercing faller's cry, was a "long-stake" man.

No one has ever more skilfully communicated his own disenchantment; no one ever blown a more ear-piercing note of sadness.

But he jumped up, and ran down to the shore, and sent an ear-piercing yell across the water.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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