[f. EAR sb.1] An instrument for clearing the ear of wax, etc.; also fig.
1483. Cath. Angl., 116. An Erepyke, aurifricium.
1568. Richmond. Wills (1853), 227. To James Gybson my godson … one silver ear pick.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Vne cure oreille, an eare picker.
1592. Lyly, Midas, V. ii. G ij a. I protest by cizars, brush and combe; bason ball and apron, by razor, eare-pike and rubbing cloathes.
1614. T. Adams, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xxvi. 10 (1882), I. 483. Alas! poor truth, that she must now be put to the charges of a golden earpick, or she cannot be heard!
1634. S. Rowley, Noble Sold., II. i. C ij a. Signeor is the king at leisure?
Cock. To doe what?
Balt. To heare a Souldier speake.
Cock. I am no eare-picker To sound his hearing that way.
1700. W. King, Transactioneer, 21. He Acts all the uncouth Faces, of a Transactioneer pausing over a China Ear-picker.
1825. Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 1255. Tweezers with an earpick.
