be-er
nounEtymology
From be + -er. Hyphenated to avoid confusion with the beverage beer.
Definitions
One whose self-identity is in passive roles, such as experiencing and observing.
- That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn't hard for me to know that this wasn't going to be easy. Because Albert was a beer. Born that way.
- they were also sentient citizens of a community that was exchanging the old idea of itself as a nation of doers and be-ers for a new vision of the U.S.A. as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers.
- 'Be-ers' or 'observers' assess a situation, see what's happening, and then take action if necessary
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for be-er. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA