Talking about Seven Aches

You probably know the word “ache”

It can be a verb or a noun, and means “ to hurt” or “a pain”.

We sometimes combine the word “ ache” with parts of the body.

For examples:

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If our back hurts, we say that we have “ backache” or “ a backache”.

However, we do “not” do this with all parts of body.

For example, we cannot say that we have a “handache”.

There are really only five parts of the body that we combine with "ache".

BACKACHE-EARACHE-HEADACHE-STOMACHACHE-TOOTHACHE.

They are shown below, Plus two other words that we use in a slightly different way.

Heartache: We do not use this to mean a “physical” pain in the heart. Instead, it means an emotional pain.

Faceache: This means an ugly or miserable-looking person. (BrE)

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