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Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« on: March 09, 2022, 12:32:20 AM »
AREOLA – surely this is common, most people have two - I would have thought that was fairly common…  :o :o :o
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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2022, 03:22:23 AM »
Agreed.
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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2022, 09:48:49 AM »
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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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2022, 12:04:05 PM »
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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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2022, 08:40:50 PM »
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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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2022, 04:36:32 AM »
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, peaking in 2013.
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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2022, 03:20:39 PM »
I've already remarked on the hilarity of the choice of the seed word for this game ...
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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2022, 04:02:57 PM »
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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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2022, 07:27:05 PM »
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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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2022, 12:04:35 PM »
Good one!  :o)

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Re: Monday 7 March 7-by-many ARSEHOLE puzzle
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2022, 03:50:42 PM »
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.
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