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earbasher

noun

Etymology

From ear + basher.

  1. derived from *baska✻ — “to strike”
  2. inherited from *basshen✻
  3. suffixed as basher — “bash + er”
  4. compounded as earbasher — “ear + basher”

Definitions

  1. A person who talks or complains a lot

    A person who talks or complains a lot; a chatterbox or nagger.

    • Yorkey had met men like Dodds before, earbashers, kingsized earbashers, but he gave him another smoke and listened to all the dreary tales, hoping there'd come a mention of Jimmy Moon.

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