Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ear candling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

Syllables
ear -can-dling
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

Uncountable

Etymology

From ear candle + -ing.

Usage

Synonyms

ear coning thermal-auricular therapy

Questions

What does ear candling mean?
An alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.
Where does ear candling come from?
From ear candle + -ing.

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