earlid

ear +‎ lid

earlid (plural earlids)

1. An imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.
   • 2008, Glenn Murphy, How Loud Can You Burp?, page 22:

     But wouldn't earlids be useful too? Possibly. But not so useful that without them earlid-less animals would die out […]

   • 2009, Seth Kim-Cohen, In the blink of an ear: toward a non-cochlear sonic art, page xx:

     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.

   • 2009 June 23, Natalie Angier, “When an Ear Witness Decides the Case”, in New York Times‎:

     But when one neighbor’s leaf blower sets off another neighbor’s car alarm, hey, where are my earlids?

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