Fine-ear.

One of Fortuʹnio’s servauts, who could hear the grass grow and the mole work underground. (Grimm’s Goblins: Fortunio.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Filter
Fin
Finality John
Finance (French)
Finch Lane (London)
Find
Findon Haddocks
Findy
Fine Arts
Fine as Fivepence
Fine-ear
Finetor
Fingal
Fingal’s Cave
Finger. (Anglo-Saxon, finger)
Finger and Glove
Finger in the Pie
Finger Benediction
Finger-stall
Fingers
Fingers before Forks