The phrase "plugged ears" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the action of covering or sealing one's ears, often with fingers or earplugs, to block out sound. Example: Sarah's mother had to raise her voice to be heard over Sarah's plugged ears as she blasted music through her headphones.
"What!?" he said, cupping his plugged ears.
I would love to relay their comments here, yet it all fell on my plugged ears.
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That was a bit confusing given I had been half deaf for nearly four months—so maybe smoking booze is a cure for plugged ears?
During base line (denoted AIR in the manuscript) subjects were laying in the scanner with closed eyes, plugged ears, passively breathing of the unscented environmental air.
The earbud really is extremely comfortable to wear, and just as the marketing material suggests, I never experienced the "plugged ear" feeling that I get with other headsets.
To compensate for increased hearing thresholds in the plugged ear, intensity levels were raised for ASR testing.
In this case, the performances are poor in term of precision and the perception of sounds presented from the plugged ear is displaced toward the unplugged functional ear.
The highest reduction in spatial errors was observed when the sound was presented in the 30 70° ispilateral to the plugged ear (20.6°±0.4° reduction).
In the A-only and the FB groups, the amelioration of the performances of the subjects is also the strongest for sound location in the azimuth ipsilateral to the plugged ear.
We surmise that while the plug was sufficient to preserve hearing well enough for animals to successfully perform during ASR testing, the plug did not prevent tinnitus-associated uptake of manganese in central pathways associated with the plugged ear.
