Lend me your -eers

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:29 pm

Are there still many -eer words in daily circulation where you live?

As a child, I loved words such as rocketeer, bucaneer, and gazetteer.

Lotus · Post by **Lotus** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:16 pm

Charioteer, muskateer, mouseketeer (the Micky Mouse Club with Annette Funicello) - all no longer in use as far as I know. But engineer is. If I think of more, I'll post again.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:00 pm

Lotus wrote:Charioteer, muskateer, mouseketeer (the Micky Mouse Club with Annette Funicello) - all no longer in use as far as I know. But engineer is. If I think of more, I'll post again.

Racketeer?

JuanTwoThree · Post by **JuanTwoThree** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:01 pm

auctioneer pamphleteer profiteer puppeteer

jotham · Post by **jotham** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:14 am

Haven't you ever used this tool before? It might give you more ideas.

http://onelook.com/?w=*teer&ls=a

Lotus · Post by **Lotus** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:58 am

Cool site, Jotham.

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:30 am

I'll volunteer a new one: careereer.

I prefer smaller dictionaries that exercise a bit, er, more "less is more" selectivity.

JuanTwoThree · Post by **JuanTwoThree** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:51 am

It didn't give me more ideas. Rather it stopped me having more ideas.

But a wildcard word site is very useful.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:01 am

JuanTwoThree wrote:auctioneer pamphleteer profiteer puppeteer

For some reason, "pamphlet" looks odd. Hmm, never though about that before. You can encounter a word for years and then suddenly think how odd it looks.

JuanTwoThree · Post by **JuanTwoThree** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:42 am

"small, unbound treatise," 1387, from Anglo-Latin panfletus, popular short form of "Pamphilus, seu de Amore" ("Pamphilus, or about Love"), a short L. love poem of 12c., popular and widely copied in Middle Ages; the name from Gk. pamphilos "loved by all," from pan- "all" + philos "loving, dear." Meaning "brief work dealing with questions of current interest" is late 16c. Pamphleteer (n.) is first recorded 1642"

Thanks to www.etymonline.com

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