[{"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupation or labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance (six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner).", "a suffix serving as the regular English formative of agent nouns, being attached to verbs of any origin (bearer; creeper; employer; harvester; teacher; theorizer)."]}, {"Bold_text": "abbreviation for", "List Items": ["King Edward."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a noun suffix occurring in loanwords from French in the Middle English period, most often names of occupations (archer; butcher; butler; carpenter; grocer; mariner; officer), but also other nouns (corner; danger; primer). Some historical instances of this suffix, as inbankerorgardener,where the base is a recognizable modern English word, are now indistinguishable from denominal formations with-er1,asmillerorpotter."]}, {"Bold_text": "abbreviation for", "List Items": ["Queen Elizabeth."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a termination of nouns denoting action or process:dinner; rejoinder; remainder; trover."]}, {"Bold_text": "abbreviation for", "List Items": ["East Riding (Yorkshire).", "East River (New York City).", "emergency room emergency room."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a suffix regularly used in forming the comparative degree of adjectives:harder; smaller."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a suffix regularly used in forming the comparative degree of adverbs:faster."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a formal element appearing in verbs having frequentative meaning:flicker; flutter; shiver; shudder."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a suffix that creates informal or jocular mutations of more neutral words, which are typically clipped to a single syllable if polysyllabic, before application of the suffix, and which sometimes undergo other phonetic alterations:bed-sitter; footer; fresher; rugger. Most words formed thus have been limited to English public-school and university slang; few, if any, have become current in North America, with the exception ofsoccer,which has also lost its earlier informal character."]}, {"Bold_text": "interjection", "List Items": ["(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.)"]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["erbium."]}, {"Bold_text": "abbreviation for", "List Items": ["Baseball. earned run ( def ) earned run ( def ).", "efficiency report.", "emergency room ( def ) emergency room ( def )."]}]