doer

Etymology

From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.əɹ/

Noun

doer (plural doers)

1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 295:

     Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].

   • 2008, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2008:

     In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

Anagrams

• Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, orde, redo, rode, roed

Adverb

doer

1. way over there; far away

   Hulle gesels daar doer.

   They're talking way over there.

   Doer, anderkant die berge!

   Far away, on the other side of the mountains!

Alternative forms

• do n

Noun

doer m, n

1. indefinite plural of do

Etymology

From Old Portuguese doer, from Latin dolēre, present active infinitive of doleō, from Proto-Italic *doleō (“hurt, cause pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti (“divide”), from *delh₁- (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /duˈeɾ/, /ˈdweɾ/

Verb

doer (past participle doído)

1. (intransitive) to hurt (to be painful)

   Minha perna doía tanto que eu não conseguia andar.

   My leg was hurting so much that I couldn’t walk.

   Injeções doem.

   Injections hurt.

2. (figuratively) to hurt; to pain (to cause emotional pain)

   Me dói ver o sofrimento dessas pessoas.

   It pains me to see these people’s suffering.

Alternative forms

• (imperative): deler
• (imperative): deuer

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdoːɨ̯r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔi̯r/

Verb

doer

1. (literary) present subjunctive impersonal of dod
2. (literary) imperative impersonal of dod

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