Feller
adj, name, noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
- 2 Nonstandard form of fellow. alt-of, nonstandard
"There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […]”"
- 3 a boy or man wordnet
- 4 A machine for felling trees.
- 5 a person who fells trees wordnet
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- 6 A person who fells a seam.
- 7 An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
- 1 comparative form of fell: more fell archaic, comparative, form-of
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"There was this feller called Pete who used to live in the next street to mine. He sported a glorious pink and blue mohican. Everyone called him Punky Pete to distinguish him from other Petes."
Etymology
From Middle English fellere, feller; equivalent to fell + -er.
Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar.
From fell + -er.
Likely an occupational surname from English feller (“one who fells trees; a lumberjack”).
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