sufferer

English

Etymology

From suffer +‎ -er.

Noun

sufferer (plural sufferers)

1. One who suffers; one who is afflicted.
   • 1944 November and December, “Rapid Damage Repair”, in Railway Magazine, page 323:

     All the main-line railways, as well as London Transport, were affected by flying-bomb damage, but naturally the Southern Railway was the principal sufferer for geographical reasons, and the L.N.E.R. came next with the damage it sustained in the Stratford area.

2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A tailor.
   • 1841, Punch Or The London Charivari (volume 1, page 160)

     From a creditor, being a "victim," "schneider," "sufferer," or "tailor," to one who sets off his wares by wearing the same, being consequently a debtor. HONOURED SIR,— I can scarcely express my delight at your kind compliments as to the fit and patterns […]

Translations

one who suffers

• Bulgarian: страда́лец (bg) m (stradálec)
• Dutch: lijder (nl) m
• French: malade (fr) m or f
• German: Leider (de) m
• Hebrew: סובל m (sovel), סובלת f (sovelet)
• Maori: hāura
• Portuguese: sofredor (pt) m
• Russian: страда́лец (ru) m (stradálec), страда́лица (ru) f (stradálica)
• Spanish: sufridor (es) m
• Welsh: dioddefwr (cy) m

References

• “sufferer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• (tailor): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary