Other forms: earaches
Earache is a pain inside the ear. Have earache, terrible earache.
It is commonest in small children because the tube from the ear drains so poorly at that age. Earache is also slang for anybody talking at you far too long.
1nounearacheA pain inside the ear.
“The earache kept the whole house awake for two nights.”
earache is a pain.
Ear plus ache, one of the plainest compounds in English.
From ear + ache.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA