earball
Plural: earballs
Noun
- The ear.
- The act or an instance of listening.
- A small ball kept in position in the ear and pressed when needed to relieve stress.
Verb
- To listen, especially to check.
Examples
- My earballs hurt from listening to this.
- to keep one's earballs open
- up to one's earballs
Origin / Etymology
From ear + ball. Noun sense 1 and verb sense 1 is modeled after eyeball.
Synonyms
King Lear, attend, be all ears, behear, ear, earball, give ear, hark, harken, heed, lend an ear, list, listen close, listener, lug, mind, note, shell-like
Scrabble Score: 9
earball: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionaryearball: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
earball: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary