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piercer

piercer

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A person who makes holes in the skin for jewelry
  • noun
  • /ˈpɪərsər/
translation icon : perforador
  • He was a licensed piercer who had gotten his certification out in California years before he came to Southern Illinois.
  • professional piercer
  • body piercer

He was a licensed piercer who had gotten his certification out in California years before he came to Southern Illinois.

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Examples

  • I'm a piercer.

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  • I'm not seeing a skull piercer here.

  • It's it's not about the piercers but the people who work there.

  • This was done by Nicc Stienmetz, a piercer at Seattle's Slave to the Needle.

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  • Person after person posted with some variation on "sign me up!", and almost immediately, piercers all over the world started doing them and posting them to BME.

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  • Obtaining reputable piercers generally is a bit expensive, but it is undoubtedly worth it compared to the hazards that you might face when paying much less.

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  • So that you can enable the pierced region to heal very easily, a typical weight is generally utilized by piercers when striking the actual waistline.

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  • In the daith, where it really took off in this subculture, piercers have been doing them since the 1990s, if not earlier, but it can be difficult to actually prove this since the documentation of piercing prior to about ten years ago was limited at best. More importantly, it's easy enough for any old person to say, "Well, I did this back in 1992?" The key is proving it, which generally means publication in a tattoo magazine, or on BME or some other independent site that marks pictures with a date stamp.

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  • At the tattoo shop, the piercer carefully sterilized the needles before starting the procedure.

  • To ensure safety and hygiene, it's important to choose a certified piercer for body modifications.

Surface Forms

piercer singular
piercers plural

Morphology

piercer = pierce (transparent) = pierce + er

Formed from the verb 'pierce' plus the productive agent/instrument suffix '-er', so the meaning 'one or thing that pierces' is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word piercer comes from the verb pierce, which began as an old French word meaning 'to go through'. Think of a needle going through the skin — a piercer is a person who makes a hole for jewelry, and that 'going through' idea explains the modern meaning.