Crossword-Solution: EARRING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Earring | n. | An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| EARRING | anagram | ANGRIER, GARNIER, GRAINER, RANGIER, REARING |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with EARRING (5)
Hardly thinking what she said in the trepidation of the moment, she exclaimed, clapping her hand to her ear— “Ah, we must be careful! I lost the other earring doing like this.” No sooner did she realise the significant words than a troubled look passed across her face, and she shut her lips as if to keep them back.
Knight, with all the rapidity of jealous sensitiveness, pounced upon some words she had inadvertently let fall about an earring, which he had only partially understood at the time.
Elfride’s thoughts instantly reverted to the words she had unintentionally uttered upon what had been going on when the earring was lost.
The word of a scout -- a march by night -- A rush through the mist -- a scattering fight -- A volley from cover -- a corpse in the clearing -- The glimpse of a loin-cloth and heavy jade earring -- The flare of a village -- the tally of slain -- And.
Her full dress of an evening was invariably a white chemise—and for adornment, green leaves (or sometimes white blossoms) stuck in her hair and thrust through her huge earring-holes.
Quotes with EARRING (3)
His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.
Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.
It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-- with immense, even startling power. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine-- the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).