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• -eroo

  a suffix that creates familiar, usually jocular variations of semantically more neutral nouns; normally added to monosyllabic bases, or merged with bases ending in -er: flopperoo; smackeroo; switcheroo. -eroo suffix used to form nouns (also -aroo or -roo or -oo) emphatic, humorous, or affectionate form of what is indicated: babyroo/ floperoo/ jivaroo/ screameroo/ sockeroo (1930s+)

• -erooney

  -arooney suffix used to form nouns a added to imply familiarity or humor: this little cararooney’s got only 10,000 miles on her

• -ers

  a semantically empty suffix that creates informal variations of more neutral nouns and adjectives by processes of truncation identical to those of -er7. (champers; preggers; starkers); unlike that suffix, however, -ers, is apparently productive, and words formed with it do not appear to belong to a restricted linguistic register, as university slang. -ers suffix used […]

• -ery

  a suffix of nouns denoting occupation, business, calling or condition, place or establishment, goods or products, things collectively, qualities, actions, etc.: archery; bakery; cutlery; fishery; trickery; witchery. -ery suffix indicating a place of business or some other activity bakery, brewery, refinery indicating a cl-ss or collection of things cutlery, greenery indicating qualities or actions collectively […]

• -es

  a plural suffix occurring in loanwords from greek: hyades. -es2 variant of -s2. in verbs ending in s, z, ch, sh, or post-consonantal y: p-sses; buzzes; pitches; dashes; studies. -es3 variant of -s3. in nouns ending in s, z, ch, sh, or post-consonantal y, and in nouns in f with v in the plural: losses; […]

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