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parer

noun

Etymology

From pare + -er.

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “to bring forward, bring forth”
  2. derived from parō — “to prepare, arrange; to provide, furnish; to resolve, purpose”
  3. derived from parer — “to arrange, prepare, trim”
  4. inherited from paren
  5. suffixed as parer — “pare + er”

Definitions

  1. A tool used to pare things.

  2. A pencil sharpener.

    • A: 'yea like I used to have all these little parers and little fancy girly parers but then I was like I'd probably get into trouble ... people would be like 'why do you have that'... so I went for a plain pencil parer'.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA