-ster

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英文释义

后缀
  1. Someone who is, or who is associated with, or who does something specified. morpheme
  2. A diminutive appended to a person's name. humorous,morpheme,offensive,sometimes
    — 1992, Russell Baker, "Observer; Pretty Good Read" (review of What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer), New York Times, 25 Jul., Cramer's exploration of the hearts, minds and souls of America's ambition-crazed Presidential candidates moves ahead at a pace that feels childishly frantic . . . . This is not just because it keeps referring to Senator Robert Dole as "the Bobster."

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-sters plural

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Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā
Old English -estre
Middle English -estere
English -ster
From Middle English -estere, -ester, from Old English -estre (“-ster”, feminine agent suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā, of disputed origin. Cognate with Middle Low German -ester, Dutch -ster.
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