earlid

noun

Etymology

From ear + lid.

  1. inherited from *ḱley-
  2. inherited from *ḱlitós
  3. inherited from *hlidą
  4. inherited from *hlid
  5. inherited from hlid
  6. inherited from lid
  7. compounded as earlid — “ear + lid

Definitions

  1. An imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.

    • But wouldn't earlids be useful too? Possibly. But not so useful that without them earlid-less animals would die out[…]
    • There is no such thing as an earlid. The ear is always open, always supplementing its primary materiality, always multiplying the singularity of perception into the plurality of experience.
    • But when one neighbor’s leaf blower sets off another neighbor’s car alarm, hey, where are my earlids?

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