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bend someone's ear

ear
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [eer]
    • /ɪər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [eer]
    • /ɪər/

Definitions of bend someone's ear words

  • noun bend someone's ear to speak at length to an unwilling listener, esp to voice one's troubles 3
  • noun bend someone's ear to talk excessively to someone 3
  • noun bend someone's ear the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain. 1
  • noun bend someone's ear the external ear alone: The hat completely covers his ears. 1
  • noun bend someone's ear the sense of hearing: sounds that are pleasing to the ear. 1
  • noun bend someone's ear keen or sensitive perception of the differences of sound, especially sensitiveness to the quality and correctness of musical sounds: an ear for music; a violinist with a good ear. 1
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Origin of bend someone's ear

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English ere, Old English ēare; cognate with Old Norse eyra, German Ohr, Gothic auso, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausìs, Greek oûs

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Parts of speech for Bend someone's ear

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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bend someone's ear popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

Synonyms for bend someone's ear

adj bend someone's ear

  • deaf — Someone who is deaf is unable to hear anything or is unable to hear very well.
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf

adjective bend someone's ear

  • deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
All 3 Synonyms of bend someone's ear

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