ear-kissing

I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?

King Lear 2004

Ear-nibbling, even ear-kissing, is a rather advanced step for the first pass one makes at a girl.

Murder Can Be Fun Brown, Fredric, 1906-1972 1948

I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?

Act II. Scene I. King Lear 1914

You have heard of the news abroad; I mean the whisper'd ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?

Act II. Scene I 1909

And his account of how it goes is -- as we shall see -- one that requires to be looked at with ears, for it contains, what one calls elsewhere in this play, -- ear-kissing arguments.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?

King Lear 1605

From The Greatest English Dramatist & Poet, this stood out to me: "For they are yet ear-kissing arguments."

LearnHub Activities 2009

From The Greatest English Dramatist & Poet, this stood out to me: "For they are yet ear-kissing arguments."

LearnHub Activities 2008

II. i.9 (360,1) ear-kissing arguments] Subjects of discourse; topics.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746