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General Category => Words => Topic started by: ridethetalk on March 09, 2022, 12:32:20 AM
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AREOLA – surely this is common, most people have two - I would have thought that was fairly common… :o :o :o
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Agreed.
EARHOLE was no known..so nobodys listening
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I tried earhole as well...
I thought, perhaps, it was a term used by the Scots, especially parents, for chastising children e.g. "I'll give you a slap across the earhole if you don't behave yourself" (Nasty recollections of my father there...)
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John,
If it was like my Dad from London, he threatened the occasional “clip round the lug hole!”, meaning the ear hole, not that I can remember getting one!
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My stepfather used to flick our ears. I hated it. It was normally in public and it was embarrassing and it stung.
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I tried earhole, too, but assumed it was two words when it wasn't accepted. Apparently it is written as one word often enough to be listed by Merriam-Webster and Collins dictionaries, as well as on the Oxford Languages website. In addition, the Google n-gram viewer shows its increasing use (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=earhole&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cearhole%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cearhole%3B%2Cc0), peaking in 2013.
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I've already remarked on the hilarity of the choice of the seed word for this game ...
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I've already remarked on the hilarity of the choice of the seed word for this game ...
I think the "choice" is made by a computer... Obviously there is no filter on these choices but we don't often see words like these as seed words in any puzzle...
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I wonder if we might see new dictionary editions defining the word like this:
arsehole
/ˈɑːshəʊl/
noun VULGAR SLANG•BRITISH
1. a person's anus.
2. a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person (e.g. Vladimir Putin).
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Good one! :o)
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A bit surprising that earhole isn't already accepted. It seems to be more often written as two words, but appears as a single word too. And, as RM notes, it's in dictionaries. I'll add it as a rare word.