Finally the Marionette, in a voice sweet as honey and soft as a flute, said to his companion: " Tell me, Lamp-Wick, dear friend, have you ever suffered from an earache? " " Never! And you? "
So, we have stomachache, we have headache we have earache, you can have a backache, a side ache, where the side of your body aches; all of these are ways of describing a part of your body that hurts.
Dr. van Eyck asks Nico about some other possible symptoms. He says, " Have you had a stuffy nose, a cough, a sore throat, or an earache? " Let's start with the first one of these, a stuffy, " stuffy, " nose.