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piercings

piercings is the plural of piercing.

Meaning of piercing

Noun

piercing (countable and uncountable, plural piercings)

  1. A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it.
    • ear piercing
  2. An item of jewellery designed to be fitted through a piercing (noun sense 2).

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Phrases with piercings

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Questions about piercings

What is piercings the plural of?
Piercings is the plural of piercing.

Words near piercings in the dictionary

  1. piercing
  2. piercing gun
  3. piercing guns
  4. piercingly
  5. piercingness
  6. piercings
  7. Piercy
  8. Piercys
  9. piered
  10. pierglass
  11. pierglasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piercings (page history and authors); piercing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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