Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- One year old; immature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to or having or hearing with only one ear; monaural. Opposite of
binaural .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a single ear
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Examples
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Like a flash, he surveyed his whole future and saw himself going one-eared through life, and in the same dash, as though inspired, his thumbs flew to the man's eyes and pressed heavily on the balls.
CHAPTER 11 2010
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And I felt like Bongo, the one-eared rabbit in Matt Groening's Life in Hell cartoon, shut up and gagged in a detention room.
Steven Hill: Was Rahm Right About Progressives? Steven Hill 2011
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In the distance, beside a pasture fence, I saw one-eared Eddie Tokus run to Silas, telling him the news.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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In the distance, beside a pasture fence, I saw one-eared Eddie Tokus run to Silas, telling him the news.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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We had been turned away by a fat, corrupt policeman who pretended our papers weren't in order, but who was really taking instructions from a dead-eyed, one-eared gangmaster who sat next to him.
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Cumming, a gift to the sometimes distant cameraman in her pink coat, was terrific on Rembrandt – a man with a self for every occasion – and Van Gogh, in whose final whorls of celestial blue she saw not the one-eared misery of the lunatic asylum, but light, hope and dignity.
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No one seemed to be interested in a scruffy one-eared cat with social difficulties.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009
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No one seemed to be interested in a scruffy one-eared cat with social difficulties.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Jack Canfield 2009
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In the next window, the middle one, stood a black, one-eared cat gazing out onto the street.
Archive 2009-04-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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A few minutes later she was joined by Samantha, her sixteen-pound one-eyed, one-eared tabby cat.
TRIAL BY FIRE J.A. JANCE 2009
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