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shoer

shoer noun: one who fits shoes to the feet.

Noun

shoer (plural shoers)

  1. One who fits shoes to the feet.
    • A farrier is a shoer of horses.

Forms of shoer

pluralshoers

Origin of shoer

From Middle English schoer, schouger (“one who shoes horses; blacksmith”), from Old English sċōere, sċōhere (“one who makes shoes; shoemaker”), equivalent to shoe + -er.

Words formed from shoer

Questions about shoer

What does shoer mean?
Shoer means one who fits shoes to the feet.
What part of speech is shoer?
Shoer is a noun.
What is the plural of shoer?
The plural of shoer is shoers.

Words near shoer in the dictionary

  1. shoepegs
  2. shoeplay
  3. shoepolish
  4. shoeprint
  5. shoeprints
  6. shoer
  7. shoers
  8. shoes
  9. shoes up
  10. shoescraper
  11. shoescrapers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoer (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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