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e'er
1[ air ]
EER
2abbreviation for
-eer
3- a noun-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French ( buccaneer; mutineer; pioneer ) and productive in the formation of English nouns denoting persons who produce, handle, or are otherwise significantly associated with the referent of the base word ( auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer ); now frequently pejorative ( profiteer; racketeer ). Compare -ary, -er 2, -ier 2.
-eer
1suffix
- forming nouns indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specified
mutineer
engineer
auctioneer
profiteer
- forming verbs to be concerned with something specified
electioneer
e'er
2/ ɛə /
adverb
- poetic.a contraction of ever
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of e'er1
from Old French -ier, from Latin -arius -ary
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Example Sentences
Byron in his day thought differently, for he sang: the most living crystal that was eer.
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We'll take the steed out where he is, The gold where eer it be, And we'll away to some unco land, And married we shall be.
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Her cap'n es Billy Coad, a man you may 'ave 'eer'd on, and wawn you would like to knaw.
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Well, if eer I heard sic a stand-and-deliver-like speech since ever I was born,—exclaimed his grandmother.
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He was an innocent poor man that wouldnt harm a child, besides being pleasant and agreeable as eer a one youd meet.
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