Er Definition
ûr
interjection
Used to express hesitation or uncertainty.
American Heritage
Used when hesitating in speaking, as while searching for a word or collecting one's thoughts: a conventionalized representation of the sound.
Webster's New World
(UK) Said when hesitating in speech.
Wiktionary
abbreviation
Earned run.
Webster's New World
Emergency room.
Webster's New World
suffix
One that performs a specified action.
Swimmer.
American Heritage
One that undergoes or is capable of undergoing a specified action.
Broiler.
American Heritage
One that has.
Ten-pounder.
American Heritage
One that is associated or involved with.
Banker.
American Heritage
Native or resident of.
New Yorker.
American Heritage
symbol
Erbium.
Webster's New World
pronoun
Webster's New World
affix
A person having to do with, esp. as an occupation or profession.
Hatter, geographer.
Webster's New World
A person native to or living in.
New Yorker, cottager.
Webster's New World
A thing or action connected with.
Webster's New World
A person or thing that ____s.
Roller.
Webster's New World
Forming the comparative degree of many adjectives and adverbs.
Later, greater.
Webster's New World
verb
(informal) To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found almost exclusively in the phrase um and er.
He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.
Wiktionary
Origin of Er
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Middle English partly from Old English -ere (from Germanic -ārjaz) (from Latin -ārius -ary) partly from Anglo-French -er (from Old French -ier) (from Latin -ārius) and partly from Old French -ere, -eor –or1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English -re, -ra
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English her, er her
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Mimetic (sound of hesitation)
From Wiktionary
