Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English fermer < Anglo-French; Old French fermier collector of revenue. See farm, -er2
Related forms
farm·er·like, adjective
pro·farm·er, adjective
un·der·farm·er, noun
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Farmeris always a great word to know.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. fermer, Fr. fermier, from M.L. firmarius, from firma (see farm). In the agricultural sense, 1590s, replacing native churl and husbandman.