Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A suffix denoting the agent, the same as -er with an original verb-formative preceding.
- Another form of the suffix -eer, retaining the French spelling, and occurring in more recent words from the French, as in brigadier, halberdier, etc. See -eer, -er.
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Examples
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The flavors can vary dramatically, and the “peat-ier” ones will have a strong, “leather” flavor to them.
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Ford's expected profit is likely to be dented by a $960 million charge in the fourth quarter for an earl ier debt-for-stock exchange.
Ford Steers Toward Robust Earnings Matthew Dolan 2011
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A more recent and even woo-ier explanation of how dilutions workis that homeopathic preparations allow water to maintain a memory of the substance that was once dissolved in it, even if the substance has been completed diluted out of solution.
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I guess if the insurgents can tell than one soldier is openly gay, then their bullets will fly straighter and their explosives will be explosive-ier … right?
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Now, Switzerland has health (ier) attitudes, which is fantastic.
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Take a look at casual games, or even hardcore (ier) flash games today: A lot of times they lack graphical detail and/or background information like the games of old (In fact, the caual/web/mobile game industry is much like the olden days of gaming in more than one aspect - but that's for another time) and yet, I generally do not feel that coveted emotoinal connection.
Imagination And Abstraction SVGL 2009
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The flavors can vary dramatically, and the “peat-ier” ones will have a strong, “leather” flavor to them.
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Has MS/NBC filed an FOIA request for the onc-ier political contributions to theGOP?
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The dub-step star teams with the Dirty Projectors 'Coffman (a.k.a. the Mariah Carey of Brooklyn indie rock) for this sublimely slinky number, which gets an even drum-and-bass-ier remix.
Singles File 2010
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The dub-step star teams with the Dirty Projectors 'Coffman (a.k.a. the Mariah Carey of Brooklyn indie rock) for this sublimely slinky number, which gets an even drum-and-bass-ier remix.
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