A Caribbean English expression describing a refusal to listen, obey, or take advice — the quality of being willfully deaf to instruction or warning. Used especially of children who won't do as they're told, but also of stubborn adults. 'Hard-ears' carries an implication of deliberate defiance rather than simple mishearing, and it functions as both a noun and an adjective in Caribbean usage.
That hard-ears child wouldn't come inside no matter how many times she called him.
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(Caribbean) A refusal to listen or obey.
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