English
smolderer
From smolder + -er.
Formed from smolder + -er
Proto-West Germanic *smolōn ‘to burn, glow, fume, smoulder’
Middle English smolder ‘smoke, smoky vapour’
Middle English smolderen ‘to suffocate, stifle’
English smolder
Today it means
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Sources
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