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1. -er, suffix6 View full entry 1899
...Introduced from Rugby School into Oxford University slang, orig. at University College, in Michaelmas Term, 1875; used to make jocular formations on ns., by clipping or curtailing them and adding...
2. -ers, suffix View full entry 1892
...Suffixed to the first part of a proper or common noun, to form a familiar or humorous nickname, as Divvers, patters; = -er. Also forming adjectives,...
3. -mans, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns from adjectives and nouns in 16th-cent. and early 17th-cent. cant: cf. crackmans, darkmans, greenmans, harmans at harman, lightmans,...
4. -ola, suffix2 View full entry
...Used to form nouns denoting commercial products (as Editola, moviola, Victrola). Subsequently (slang) used as a humorous device for extending ordinary words (e.g. ...
5. -ski, suffix View full entry 1902
...A suffix appended to a word or phrase in humorous imitation of Russian. Cf. buttinsky...
6. -style, suffix View full entry 1934
...Appended to adjs....
