“Your Lord is either balde, mangie, or earelesse.”
A Language is a Dialect with an Army & Navy
The wording of this definition has been revised since I created this comic. It now reads “To talk incessantly or at great length,”, ‘Ear-basher’ has its own entry (‘A person who talks excessively; a bore’), and the quotation has changed. The line from We Were Rats is now “Ya know them things he's often ear-bashing about.” This may be a different passage, or excerpted from an inferior translation, sadly missing much of the character of the original Australian.
“‘Time for you bastards to do some spine bashing,’ said one. ‘Are you going to sit there ear bashing all night?’”