ers

[ urs, airs ]
/ ɜrs, ɛərs /

noun

ervil.

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Origin of ers

Middle French <Old Provençal <Late Latin ervus, variant of Latin ervum. See ervil

Definition for ers (2 of 3)

ERS

or E.R.S.

Emergency Radio Service.

Definition for ers (3 of 3)

-ers

a semantically empty suffix that creates informal variations of more neutral nouns and adjectives by processes of truncation identical to those of-er7 (champers; preggers; starkers); unlike that suffix, however, -ers is apparently productive, and words formed with it do not appear to belong to a restricted linguistic register, as university slang.

Origin of -ers

perhaps a conflation of -er7 with the final element of bonkers and crackers in the sense “wild, crazy” (unless these words themselves contain this suffix); cf. -s3
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Words related to ers

emergency, exclamation, wow, amen, hello, alas, boo, hurrah, ahem, oh, whoopee, hooray, shucks, ouch, rah, ah, egad, golly, hey, huh

British Dictionary definitions for ers

ERS

abbreviation for

earnings related supplement
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