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swooner

swooner noun: someone who swoons.

Noun

swooner (plural swooners)

  1. Someone who swoons
    • For a while on “Breakthrough,” as with Ms. Caillat’s debut album, “Coco,” it appears as if she’s content to remain polite, an unfussy swooner.2009 September 2, Jon Caramanica, “Singing a (Very) Simple Song”, in New York Times

Forms of swooner

pluralswooners

Origin of swooner

From Middle English swounere, sownere, equivalent to swoon + -er.

Questions about swooner

What does swooner mean?
Swooner means someone who swoons.
What part of speech is swooner?
Swooner is a noun.
What is the plural of swooner?
The plural of swooner is swooners.

Words near swooner in the dictionary

  1. swoon
  2. swoon hypothesis
  3. swoon set
  4. Swoonatra
  5. swooned
  6. swooner
  7. swooners
  8. swoonest
  9. swooneth
  10. swoonier
  11. swooniest

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