charmer

From Middle English charmer, charmere, equivalent to charm +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹmɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)

charmer (plural charmers)

1. A charming person; one who charms or seduces; a smoothie.
   • 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News‎^[1]:

     And "Juno" is the kind of movie all indie comedies wish they could be: light and lovable, perhaps a bit too pleased with the cleverness of its dialogue, but a small charmer nonetheless.

2. An enchanter or magician.
3. (ironic) A rude or unpleasant person.
   • 2012 December 27, The G2 Supplement, “Best slapdowns of 2012”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     What a charmer, Karl Lagerfeld

• charm
• charming
• snake charmer

• marcher

charmer c

1. indefinite plural of charme

charmer

1. present of charme
2. imperative of charmere

From charme.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.me/

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charmer

1. to charm (with magic)
2. to charm

• charmant
• charme
• charmeresse
• charmeur
• charmeuse

• → Italian: ciurmare

• “charmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• marcher

• charmere, charmor, charmar, chermar

From Old French charmier; equivalent to charmen +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃarˈmeːr/, /ˈt͡ʃarmər/

charmer (plural charmeres)

1. A mage or spellcaster; an individual who uses magic.
2. (rare) One who intrigues or interests others.

• English: charmer
• Scots: chairmer

• “charmere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 September 2018.

Inherited from Latin carmināre.

charmer

1. to charm; to enchant (put under a magic spell)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rms, *-rmt are modified to rs, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• → Neapolitan: nciarmare
• → Sicilian: ciarmari