goer

Etymology

From Middle English goere, equivalent to go +‎ -er. Compare German Geher (“goer, walker”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊə(r)

Noun

goer (plural goers)

1. One who, or that which, goes.
   • Macaulay

     This antechamber has been filled with comers and goers.

   She is an avid movie-goer.

2. Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully.

   I bought her secondhand, but she's a good little goer.

3. (Britain, slang) A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity.

   She's a right little goer, I could hear her from next door.

   • 1990, Hampton Charles, Advantage Miss Seeton, page 45,

     He winked at Parsons. "If I'm any judge, she must've bin a right little goer in 'er day."

   • 2001, Peter Buse, Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama, page 102,

     ' […] (Intimate, man to man) Eh, I bet she's a goer, int she sunshine? She's got a fair pair of knockers on her too.'

   • 2001, Edna Walsh, Bedbound and Misterman, →ISBN, page 22,

     'I can tell that yer a right little goer, hey Larsie?!' I call over two slappers and slip them a few hundred! Before I know it me and Lars and the two slappers are rolling around a giant bed with the hungriest genitals in Gay Paree!

4. (obsolete) A foot.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)

5. (dated) A horse, considered in reference to its gait.

   a safe goer

   • James Joyce

     I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.

Anagrams

• Geor., Gero, Gore, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, gore, ogre, orge, rego