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the only part of your ear with no real job, just vibes and jewelry
means The soft, fleshy lower part of the external ear, lacking cartilage and often pierced for earrings.
from A compound of "ear" and "lobe." "Ear" comes from Old English "eare," a Germanic word with deep Indo-European roots (cousin to Latin "auris" and the source of words like "auditory"). "Lobe" arrived later through Latin "lobus" from Greek "lobos," meaning a rounded, hanging part — the same root behind the lobes of the lung and liver. So the word literally stacks an ancient body-part name onto a borrowed Greek term for "dangly bit."
- no cartilage
- Pure fat and skin, unlike the rest of your ear
- attached or free
- A classic, oversimplified genetics class example
- crease warning
- A diagonal earlobe crease links to heart disease
- blood supply
- Rich circulation makes piercings heal fast
- keeps growing
- Earlobes lengthen slowly across your entire life
van gogh's severed earlobe — artist cut off part of his left earlobe in arles, france in 1888
darwin's earlobe point — charles darwin noted the pointed earlobe trait as a human variation in on the origin of species