yearer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]yearer (plural yearers)
- (in combinations) A period of a certain number of years.
- 1983, Mordecai Richler, The Best of modern humor:
- "Five yearers" were said to be allowed to grow moustaches or even marry a wife if such a thing were available. If "four yearers" mixed with "one yearers" the worst was suspected and very often turned out to be true.
- 2009, Joachim Radkau, Max Weber:
- He feels the resentment of lower-class recruits and NCOs against the 'one-yearer' with higher education, who does not even have to sleep in the murk of the barracks.