holer

From hole + -er.

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holer (plural holers)

1. That which holes, perforates etc.
2. (US, slang, in combination) An outhouse with the specified number of holes for use as toilets.
   • 1997, Luther Bryan Clegg, The Empty Schoolhouse: Memories of One-Room Texas Schools, page 78:

     And at recess we all went out to the three-holer toilet, and boy, we had us a ball.

• perforator

• one-holer

• Loehr, Roehl

• holour
• holur (Late Middle English); hollowr, hullowre (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• huler (AB language); holyer (Kent)

Borrowed from Old French holier, dissimilatory variant of horier, from Old High German huorāri (modern Hurer), from Proto-West Germanic *hōrārī; in later Middle English remodelled on the suffix -our. First attested in c. 1235.

• IPA^(key): /(h)uˈleːr/, /ˈ(h)ulər/
• IPA^(key): /(h)uˈluːr/, /ˈ(h)ulur/ (influenced by -our)

holer (plural holers)

1. A whoremonger or lecher; an adulterous or sexually unrestrained man.
2. (rare, figurative) An adulterator (of God's word)

• “hō̆lǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “holour, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

holer m or f

1. indefinite plural of hole

holer f

1. indefinite plural of hole