Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable)The practice of making an opening in part of the flesh and attaching rings, small barbells or varios other decoration through it.

    He finds body piercing to be a satisfying occupation.

    пи́рсингpírsing

  2. (countable)An opening made in the flesh through the above practice.

    I have a number of body piercings that would make a nun shiver.

    пи́рсингpírsing

Examples

4 sentences
  1. It's a type of body piercing.

    ruЭто вид пирсинга. — Selena777

    deEs ist eine Art von Piercing. — jort93

  2. He's obsessed with getting body piercings.

  3. Sami was covered in tattoos and body piercings.

  4. Both peoples often wore little, if any, clothing and usually decorated themselves with tattoos and body piercings.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the practice:

Forms

plural: body piercings
Singularbody piercing
Pluralbody piercings

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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