different between goer vs geer

English

Etymology

From Middle English goere, equivalent to go +? -er. Compare German Geher (“goer, walker”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o??/
• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

goer (plural goers)

1. One who, or that which, goes.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 2,^[1]

     Such a man

     Might be a copy to these younger times;

     Which, follow’d well, would demonstrate them now

     But goers backward.

   • 1845, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Hannah Macaulay dated 19 December, 1845 in G. Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, New York: Harper, 1875, Volume 2, p. 149,^[2]

     Lord John has been all day in his inner library. His antechamber has been filled with comers and goers, some talking in knots, some writing notes at tables.

   • 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: The Hogarth Press, 1930, Part 1, p. 58,^[3]

     […] the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady goers of superhuman strength […] plodding and persevering, […] ; on the other the gifted, the inspired […]

2. Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully.

   I bought her secondhand, but she's a good little goer.

3. (Britain, slang) A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity.
   • 1990, Hampton Charles, Advantage Miss Seeton,^[4] page 45,

     He winked at Parsons. "If I'm any judge, she must've bin a right little goer in 'er day."

   • 2001, Peter Buse, Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama,^[5] page 102,

     ' […] (Intimate, man to man) Eh, I bet she's a goer, int she sunshine? She's got a fair pair of knockers on her too.'

   • 2001, Edna Walsh, Bedbound and Misterman,^[6] ?ISBN, page 22,

     'I can tell that yer a right little goer, hey Larsie?!' I call over two slappers and slip them a few hundred! Before I know it me and Lars and the two slappers are rolling around a giant bed with the hungriest genitals in Gay Paree!

4. (obsolete) A foot (body part).
   • c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 13, p. 202,^[7]

     […] a double Mantle cast

     A’ thwart his Shoulders, his faire goers g[r]ac’st

     With fitted shooes; and in his hand, a Dart

5. (dated) A horse, considered in reference to its gait.
   • 1727, Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn et al., 1742, Volume 4, Letter 3, p. 106,^[8]

     These Horses, which are very much bought up in England, are remarkable for being good natural Pacers, strong, easy Goers, hardy, gentle, well-broken, and, above all, not apt to tire.

   • 1914, James Joyce, “The Dead” in Dubliners,

     “I'd like nothing better this minute,” said Mr Browne stoutly, “than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.”

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Geor., Gero, Gore, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, gore, ogre, orge, rego, roge

English

Noun

geer (countable and uncountable, plural geers)

1. Obsolete form of gear.

Anagrams

• Eger, Gere, eger, egre, gree

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gêer, from Old Dutch *g?r, from Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

geer m (plural geren, diminutive geertje n)

1. spear
2. (heraldry) gyron

Synonyms

• (spear): speer, spies, lans

Derived terms

• aalgeer

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *g?r, from Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz.

Noun

gêer m

1. spear

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: geer

Further reading

• “ghere (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “geer (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page III