earlobe
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- noun
- /ˈɪrˌloʊb/
:
lóbulo de la oreja
- Many people choose to wear earrings that dangle from their earlobes for a stylish look.
- stretched earlobes
Tasted like earlobe out of my head.
- Tasted like earlobe out of my head.
- Joey, Louie, Lou and I enjoyed a earlobe sucking.
- He started with the left one and he was like squeezing my earlobes and you won't believe it.
- You're all asking about that earlobe.
- Where my cue cards, you know when a man want to lick your earlobe?
Examples
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Those are some mighty big earlobes you got there, son.
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And here she finished her thought by giving another sharp tug on my earlobe before letting it go.
Fiction book (1997) -
Okay, now... now take your hand and pull down on the earlobe.
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A little gold ring is hooked into his earlobe, and his hair looks newly washed with gold as well.
Fiction book (1991) -
Just look at those earlobes.
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My mom used to ask her mom to touch her earlobes so she could fall asleep.
Academic text (2015) -
I reached over and feathered my fingers against his earlobe and neck.
Fiction book (1996) -
Rayburton smiled and nodded, making the silver triangle hanging from his right earlobe bob up and down.
Fiction book (1992) -
Moreover, sarcoidosis has been described at the site of earlobe piercings, usually in patients with systemic sarcoidosis.
Academic text (2003) -
Women of Orissa's Longia Soura tribe stretch their earlobes by placing increasingly larger balsa wood earplugs into their pierced ears.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
A soft lower part of the ear that hangs down
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Earlobe is simply ear + lobe, and the part lobe comes from a Latin word that meant 'a rounded flap', so an earlobe is the soft, rounded lower part of the ear.