(added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More; used to form the comparative.

(added to certain adverbs) More; used to form the comparative.

(added to a verb or imitative sound) Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.

(added to a verb) Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs, especially in legal terms.

(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.