CANKER

PRONUNCIATION: (KANG-kuhr)

MEANING:
noun: 1. A source of corruption or decay.
2. Ulcerous sores in the mouth; also any of various diseases affecting animals and plants.
verb tr., intr.: 1. To corrupt or to become corrupted.
2. To infect with or be infected with canker.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English cancer (crab, tumor). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kar-/ker- (hard), which also gave us standard, cancer, and hard. Earliest documented use: 1384.

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CANYER - an Australian request, as in "Canyer bring me a beer ?