Definitions for earache

earache ear·ache

Spelling: [eer-eyk]
IPA: /ˈɪərˌeɪk/

Earache is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in earache (aaceehr).

Definitions for earache

noun

  1. pain in the ear; otalgia.

Origin of earache

First recorded in 1650-60; ear1 + ache

Examples for earache

One of Enoks kerchiefs it was—a quondam bandage for the earache.

Although he lived to be an old man, he often had the earache.

If you are in doubt about it, treat it as you would an earache—with silent contempt.

If you rode twelve mile with Emulous, you must have had an earache for the last six.

I let him blood in the right thigh, and away flew his earache.

Hot cloths and hot bottles or bags will help in toothache, just as they do in earache.

This is why one so often has earache after an attack of the grip or after a bad cold.

In India the juice of the leaves is a popular remedy for earache.

Jed, he mumbled some kind of foolishness about some things givin' him earache.

An earache in a child with a perfectly normal exam is more difficult to figure out than one with a bulging and inflamed eardrum.

Word Value for earache
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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