interjection. Used to express hesitation or uncertainty.

A Middle English form of ere.

A suffix of Latin origin, denoting usually a person, and often an agent, but not, like -er, usually associated with a verb.

A suffix of verbs, giving them a frequentative and sometimes a diminutive sense, as patter from pat, swagger from swag, flutter from float, sputter from spout, etc.

An English suffix, originally and properly attached to verbs to form nouns of the agent, as in baker, creeper, delver, driver, reader, sower, writer, etc.

In heraldry, an abbreviation of ermine.

In chem., the symbol for erbium.

A suffix of certain nouns, mostly technical terms of the law (from Old Law French), as attainder, misnomer, trover, user, non-user, waiver, etc. In endeavor, endeavour, the orig. -er is disguised in the spelling.

A simplified spelling of err.

A suffix of adjectives, forming the comparative degree, as in colder, deeper, greater, bigger, etc., and being cognate with the Latin comparative suffix -or, -ior, neuter -us, -ius, represented in English in major, minor, minus, prior, superior, inferior, etc.

noun. the chemical symbol for erbium, a rare earth element. It has atomic number 68 and an atomic weight of 167.26.

interjection. Said when hesitating in speech.

verb. To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found almost exclusively in the phrase um and er.

noun. a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium

noun. a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment

"'Then, er, would you ask your driver to take you to, er, Randfontein House, er… the Dettrick Room… that's a reception room, you see, which we hire for this, well, sort of thing.'"

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