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noun jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe
originFrom Middle English erering, from Old English ēarhring (“ear-ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀahring, equivalent to ear + ring. Cognate with West Frisian earring (“earring”), Dutch oorring (“earring”), German Low German Ohrring (“earring”), German Ohrring (“earring”), Danish ørering (“earring”), Swedish örring (“earring”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0