different between earring vs marring

English

Etymology

From Middle English erering, from Old English ?arhring (“ear-ring”), equivalent to ear +? ring. Cognate with West Frisian earring (“earring”), Dutch oorring (“earring”), German Ohrring (“earring”), Swedish örring (“earring”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????/
• Rhymes: -?????
• Hyphenation: ear?ring

Noun

earring (plural earrings)

1. A piece of jewelry worn on the ear.

Translations

See also

• earing

Anagrams

• Garnier, Granier, angrier, grainer, rangier, rearing

West Frisian

Etymology

From ear +? ring.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r??/

Noun

earring c (plural earringen, diminutive earrinkje)

1. earring

Further reading

• “earring”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology 1

Verb

marring

1. present participle of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     […] Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?

     From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England,

     From Lisbon, Barbary, and India?

     And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch

     Of merchant-marring rocks?

Etymology 2

mar +? -ing

Noun

marring (plural marrings)

1. Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
   • 1985, Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Nevèrÿon:

     Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.

Anagrams

• armring