Definitions

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  • noun slang A person who can hear.

Etymologies

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hear +‎ -ie

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Examples

  • Hearie, hearie, will someone now extend the stereotype on me and my fellow-immigrants and brand my Jewish friends as sexual racists?

    Slimy Love. Racism as a Private Hell. 2007

  • With his little armes houlding himselfe by the hearie and rough locks, his countenance and eyes vpon the byg and full vdder thus sucking.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • You see in other (hearie) forums I have created threads where folks would record audio files of themselves - their voices.

    AllDeaf.com 2009

  • You see in other (hearie) forums I have created threads where folks would record audio files of themselves - their voices.

    AllDeaf.com 2009

  • I'm a hearie who worked with a young man in his late teens in a psychiatric hospital many, many years ago.

    AllDeaf.com jeffreymjudd 2009

  • Or fled fhc with his life, and left ihis vcrfe To hang on her depaned patron's hearie?

    Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791

  • a moderate height of greene lawrell, fruitefull memerels, hearie & high pine trees, and within the cleere channels, with graueled banks, and in some places the bottom was faire soft yealow sande, where the water ran swifte, and the three leaued driope grew.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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