TWEEZER


Meaning of TWEEZER in English

I. -zə(r) noun

( -s )

Etymology: tweeze (I) + -er

1. obsolete : tweeze

2. : tweezers

II. verb

( -ed/-ing/-s )

Etymology: back-formation from tweezers

transitive verb

: to draw, place, or hold with or as if with tweezers

coaxing smoke from a cigarette stub which … he had tweezered between two pieces of wire — A.M.Robinson

intransitive verb

: to use tweezers

III. noun

( -s )

Etymology: origin unknown

dialect : american merganser

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.