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-eer
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, -er2, -ier2.
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-eer
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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World English Dictionary
| -eer or -ier | |
| —suffix | |
| 1. | (forming nouns) indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specified: auctioneer; engineer; profiteer; mutineer |
| 2. | (forming verbs) to be concerned with something specified: electioneer |
| [from Old French -ier, from Latin -arius | |
| -ier or -ier | |
| —suffix | |
| [from Old French -ier, from Latin -arius | |
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Word Origin & History
-eer
Anglicized form of Fr. -ier, from L. -arius, -iarius.
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