(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.)

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.

plural of ere

simple past tense and past participle of err

simple past tense and past participle of er

Pronunciation spelling of her.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of er

present participle of err