ner
/nɜː/
ner interjection: an interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
Interjection
- An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
- You're wrong, so ner!
- I don't care what you think, so ner!
Noun capitalized: NER
NER (uncountable)
- Initialism of named-entity recognition.
- Initialism of neither employed nor retired.
- See also: NEET
Origin of ner
Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.
Words formed from ner
- Emphatic form of ner — pronounced
- nɜː nɜː nə nɜː nɜː
- and sung
- spoken with the rhythm: crotchet
- dotted quaver
- semiquaver
- crotchet
- crotchet. Spelling is not canonical
- alternatives are
- .
- ner ner ner ner ner
Phrases with ner
Words that rhyme with ner
Questions about ner
- What does ner mean?
- Ner means an interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
- What part of speech is ner?
- Ner can be an interjection or a noun.
- How do you pronounce ner?
- Ner is pronounced /nɜː/.
Words near ner in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ner (page history and authors); NER (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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