Puer

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Rhymes with -uːə(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)

Perhaps from French puer.

historical, uncountable Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins. 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.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of 普洱 (pǔ'ěr), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).

Borrowed from Latin puer (“boy, lad, child”).

abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of puer aeternus.puer aeternus “No; you called it that. Anyway, what’s wrong with ‘whither’?” / “Oh, that; we had to struggle through a high school commencement speech one time, something about ‘Whither now, oh, puers and puellas?’ and now the word gives us the hiccoughs.”

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of 普洱 (Pǔ'ěr), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).

alternative Alternative form of Pu'er.Pu'er Until the 1950s, Han Chinese traders came from Puer city to purchase and transport this crude tea by horsetrain back to Puer, about 150 miles away, where it was processed into "bricks" or loose tea in family workshops.