wearer

From Middle English werer, werere, equivalent to wear +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛəɹə/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛɹɚ/

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• (General American, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈweɹɚ/, /wɛəɹɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈweːɹə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwiəɹə/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈweəɹə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈweɹəɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɜːɹə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)
• Homophone: whirrer (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)

wearer (plural wearers)

1. One who wears.

   On Saint Patrick's day I put on my green shirt and join the wearers of the green.

   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 85:

     Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.

• ree-raw, rewear