-ier
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-ier
2a noun suffix occurring mainly in loanwords from French, often simply a spelling variant of -eer, with which it is etymologically identical (bombardier; brigadier; financier; grenadier); it is also found on an older and semantically more diverse group of loanwords that have stress on the initial syllable (barrier; courier; courtier; terrier). Recent loanwords from French may maintain the modern French pronunciation with loss of the final r sound (croupier; dossier; hotelier).
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is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| -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 | |
| -ier | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| a variant of -eer : brigadier | |
| [from Old English -ere | |
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