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puer

noun
USPOO-ur/ˈpu.ɚ/UKPOO-uh/ˈpuː.ə/

Pluralpuers

3 meanings of puer

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  1. 1
    Chinese teanoun
    Another spelling of pu'er: a fermented tea from Yunnan, China, often aged for years and pressed into cakes.

    We ordered a pot of aged puer to finish the meal.

    The shop sells puer pressed into small round cakes.

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  2. 2
    SayPOO-airUS/ˈpu.ɛɹ/UK/ˈpuː.ɛə/
    eternal boynounabbreviationellipsis
    Short form of puer aeternus: a grown man who acts like a boy and will not grow up.

    Her therapist called him a puer, a man who refuses to grow up.

    At forty he still acted like a puer, always changing jobs and never settling down.

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  3. 3
    USPYOO-ur/ˈpju.ɚ/UKPYOO-uh/ˈpjuː.ə/
    tanning dungnounhistoricaluncountable
    Animal droppings used in old leather-making to soften skins after they are treated with lime.

    Like a soak that turns stiff, hard leather into something soft and bendy.

    The tanner soaked the limed skins in puer to make them soft.

    A solution called the ‘pure’ or the 'pewer' (having never seen the word written.., we must spell it as pronounced) is prepared in a large vessel, and into this the skins are immersed.
    1842, The Penny Magazine, May 212/1Here, pure or pewer means animal dung used to soften skins.
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Origins

Meaning 3

It may come from the French word puer.

Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 1 fact

Meaning 1

It comes from the Pinyin spelling of the Chinese word 普洱 (pǔ'ěr), written without the mark that divides the syllables.

Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 2 facts