"ear-piercing" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: ear + piercing Etymology templates: {{compound|en|ear|piercing}} ear + piercing Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} ear-piercing (not comparable)
  1. Extremely loud (of sound). Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: deafening, ear-splitting Translations (extremely loud): пронизи́телен (pronizítelen) (Bulgarian), korviasärkevä (Finnish), korviavihlova (Finnish), пронзи́тельный (pronzítelʹnyj) (Russian), penetrante (Spanish), taladrante (Spanish), chillón [masculine] (Spanish), pinchante (Spanish), traspasante (Spanish), horadante (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-ear-piercing-en-adj-psHh1ohI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19

Noun

Forms: ear-piercings [plural]
Etymology: ear + piercing Etymology templates: {{compound|en|ear|piercing}} ear + piercing Head templates: {{en-noun}} ear-piercing (plural ear-piercings)
  1. A piercing in the ear.
    Sense id: en-ear-piercing-en-noun-3dihhsbU

Inflected forms

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