-er
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Suffix
- A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- read + -er → reader
- see + -er → seer
- cook + -er → cooker
- compute + -er → computer
- run + -er → runner
- toast + -er → toaster
- swim + -er → swimmer
- do good + -er → do-gooder
- A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- look + -er → looker (“an attractive person”)
- keep + -er → keeper (“a person or thing worth keeping”)
- A person whose occupation is the root noun; a person characterized by the root.
- astrology + -er → astrologer
- baby boom + -er → baby boomer
- conlang + -er → conlanger
- cricket + -er → cricketer
- trumpet + -er → trumpeter
- zine + -er → ziner
- A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
- six + -er → sixer
- six foot + -er → six-footer
- three-wheel + -er → three-wheeler
- first grade + -er → first grader
- Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- percent + -er → percenter (“commission agent”)
- one hand + -er → one-hander (“one-man show”)
- oat + -er → oater (“a Western-themed movie”)
- A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- birth + -er → birther
- flat earth + -er → flat-earther
- truth + -er → truther
- woke + -er → woker
- A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- bacon + -er → baconer (“pig raised for bacon”)
- chocolate chip + -er → chocolate chipper (“cookie containing chocolate chips”)
- sternwheel + -er → sternwheeler (“vessel driven by a sternwheel”)
- Indicates a correspondence or coincidence between the action or condition indicated by the root and the noun being described.
- piss + -er → pisser (“a hilariously funny event or situation”)
- Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- New York + -er → New Yorker
- London + -er → Londoner
- Dublin + -er → Dubliner
- New England + -er → New Englander
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
- island + -er → islander
- highland + -er → highlander
- East End + -er → East-Ender
Suffix
- Suffix used to form the plural of a small number of English nouns.
- childer, calver, lamber, linder ("loins")
Suffix
- More; used to form the comparative.
- hard + -er → harder
- wet + -er → wetter
- motley + -er → motlier
- eerie + -er → eerier
- clayey + -er → clayier
- The younger child was outgoing, the older quite reserved.
Suffix
- More; used to form the comparative.
Suffix
- Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- twitter, clamber, bicker, mutter, wander, flutter, flicker, slither, smother, sputter
Suffix
- Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- disclaim + -er → disclaimer
- remit + -er → remitter
- misname + -er → misnomer
- rebut + -er → rebutter
- attain + -er → attainder
Suffix
- Used to form diminutives.
- shive + -er → shiver
- slive + -er → sliver
- splint + -er → splinter
Suffix
- Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- association + -er → soccer (“association football”)
- football + -er → footer (“association football”)
- rugby + -er → rugger
- Radcliffe + -er → Radder (“a building at Oxford University”)
Suffix
- A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action:
- clive + -er → cliver (“apt to cleave or adhere to, tenacious, expert as seizing”)
- slip + -er → slipper (“tending to make slip, slippery”)
- wake + -er → waker (“tending to wake, watchful”)
Suffix
- Junior, child, younger person.
- Li’er said hello to his father.
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