Noun: ormer
| Singular | ormer |
| Plural | ormers |
Sample Sentences
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The food I like best of all foods is ormers; but you can't always get them. [1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 16:]
Nouns inflected like ormer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Norman ormèr/ormer, variants of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris (“ear of the sea”), from Latin auris (“ear”) + mare (“sea”). See: Latin Nouns '
auris'.