earclip

plural earclips

1. Any of several different things that clip on the ear
   1. An earring that clips to the earlobe rather than being attached through a piercing.

      In a pendant on a simple chain a few blue-white diamonds flashed; the stones that gleamed in her ear-clips were smaller but as fine in color.

      1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 87

   2. An identifying tag for cattle.