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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
earache
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For earaches that make children irritable and hard to console, chamomilla is the best choice.
▪ If the earache is severe or if any earache accompanies measles.
▪ So with the statement that I have an earache.
▪ The baby was weeping in a determined, muscular, long-haul rhythm, probably from earache.
▪ With earache children may screech out, can not keep still with the pain and may be violently excited by it.
▪ With these kind of earaches children often want to be rocked all the time, but are never satisfied.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Earache

Earache \Ear"ache`\, n. Ache or pain in the ear.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
earache

also ear-ache, 1789, from ear (n.1) + ache (n.).

Wiktionary
earache

n. (context pathology English) A pain in the middle ear or inner ear.

WordNet
earache

n. an ache localized in the middle or inner ear [syn: otalgia]

Usage examples of "earache".

As the winter progressed, Ayla learned to treat burns, cuts, bruises, colds, sore throats, stomachaches, earaches, and many of the minor injuries and ailments they fell heir to in the normal course of living.

She let Desdemona worry about the diaper rashes and whooping coughs, the earaches and nosebleeds.

Mullein oil is recommended for earache and discharge from the ear, and for any eczema of the external ear and its canal.

Spring was coming through, interpreted by the music of the day, and it was spring as we know it, April of the latest, though the flowers were all behind this year, a blare of northeasterly brass, interjectory flicks of cold mud, an earache of discordant blasts, an April symphony of squalls, hail, and unemployment .

That doctor is so horny that when I went in for an earache he gave me a Pap test.