surfer

From surf +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)

• Audio (Southern England):

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surfer (plural surfers)

1. A person who rides a surfboard.
   • 1965, John Bloomfield, Know-how in the Surf, page 28:

     When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:

     A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.

2. A person who surfs the Internet.
3. (obsolete) A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).

• surf rider (obsolete)

• → German: Surfer
• → Japanese: サーファー (sāfā)
• → Korean: 서퍼 (seopeo)
• → Polish: surfer

Borrowed from English surf + -er.

• IPA^(key): /sœʁ.fe/

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surfer

1. to surf (on a wave)
2. to surf (to browse the internet)

• surf
• surfeur

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

Unadapted borrowing from English surfer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.fɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrfɛr
• Syllabification: sur‧fer

surfer m pers (female equivalent surferka)

1. (surfing) surfer (person who rides a surfboard)

• surfer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• surfer in Polish dictionaries at PWN