Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also earbang) to talk incessantly; also as a n., a chat.

1944		L. Glassop We Were the Rats 205: Time for you bastards to do some spine bashing. [...] Are you going to sit there ear bashing all night?
1952		J. Cleary Sundowners 227: It looked like being an ideal day for a beer and an ear-bash.
1953		K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 22: She was ear-bashing me all over tea how you came lairizing round at our place like you owned it.
1960		‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 196: Why do Ities keep ear-bashin’ each other all the time?
1963		(con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 177: Yer always earbashin’ me about that.
1965		F.J. Hardy Yarns of Billy Borker 56: Always bashing their ear about how much money he was making.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 9: When the MPs arrived they would find the crowd lounging around, sipping beer and earbashing.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 16: This loopy ear-bashing charlie.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 42/1: earbash to talk.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 47: it was once said that at the Marble Bar that you could be earbashed by Henry Parkes, manipulated by Mark Foy, [...] and conned by Cyril The Dip all in the space of one arvo’s drinking session.
2000		W.T. Vollmann Royal Family 720: The preacher earbanged him and then gave him soggy [...] casserole.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

2. to subject to one’s opinions, grievances etc; thus as n.

1961		R.S. Close With Hooves of Brass 72: A game of cards was one thing, but to be ear-bashed by Preacher just because he had lost wasn’t her idea of entertainment.
1968		S. Gore Holy Smoke 52: What about gettin’ off your spine and givin’ your God an earbash as well?
1973		(con. 1930s) F. Huelin ‘Keep Moving’ 52: Anyway, we have to get to the Mil. before we can ear-bash any rep.
1986		C. Bowles G’DAY 108: Meanwhile Mrs Marshall is ear bashing one of the guests.
1987		M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 291: Has the old boy been bashing your ear? I bet he has. Christ, he’s full of garbage sometimes.