(added to a verb or noun) Used to form diminutives.

(originally school slang) Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.

(now chiefly dialectal) A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action:

(fiction) Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually a portion of the given name.)

(obsolete) At an earlier time.

(poetic, archaic) Before; sooner than.

(poetic, archaic) Before.

Obsolete form of ear.

Initialism of Elizabeth Regina (“Queen Elizabeth”). / (US politics) Initialism of Eleanor Roosevelt. / (US sports) Abbreviation of Erie (“Erie, Pennsylvania, USA”).

(baseball) Initialism of earned run. / (biology) Initialism of endoplasmic reticulum. / (computing) Initialism of entity-relationship. / (medicine) Initialism of emergency room.