Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySomeone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do + -er.
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