earclip
nounEtymology From ear + clip.
› Any of several different things that clip on the ear
1
An earring that clips to the earlobe rather than being attached through a piercing.
- In a pendant on a simple chain a few blue-white diamonds flashed; the stones that gleamed in her ear-clips were smaller but as fine in color.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 87:
2
An identifying tag for cattle.