1815: -er for Conspiracies Dec 4, 2019

The '-er' suffix has long made verbs and other nouns into nouns denoting occupation of location. A newer meaning has come about to mean 'believer in the conspiracy theory of", such as in 'anti-vaxxer', 'flat-earther', '911-truther' and plenty more. This has been discussed before here, but on another note, this is not going to be in dictionaries. Part of the reason may just be that it's relatively new, but also consider that these words don't have a very clear pattern necessarily, especially considering the example of 'anti-vaxxer', which doesn't use the whole word.

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