Timeline for Word for the person who has a favorite
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| May 10, 2013 at 17:58 | vote | accept | sindrenm | ||
| May 9, 2013 at 21:45 | answer | added | B. Szonye | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 9, 2013 at 18:59 | answer | added | p.s.w.g | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 9, 2013 at 17:49 | answer | added | Kristina Lopez | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 9, 2013 at 17:18 | comment | added | John Lawler | There isn't a single word for the person; but there's the fixed phrase playing favorites for the trait of giving preference to some person for personal reasons, and also the fixed phrase playing the favorite for the action of betting on a horse, player, or outcome that is the favorite in a contest. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 17:17 | comment | added | rhetorician | Or you could go with "preferrer." Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English preferre < Latin praeferre to bear before, set before, prefer, equivalent to prae- pre- + ferre to bear Related forms: pre·fer·red·ly [pri-fur-id-lee, -furd-lee], adverb; pre·fer·red·ness, noun; pre·fer·rer, noun; un·pre·ferred, adjective Synonyms: 1. favor, fancy. 3. offer, proffer, tender. (from dictionaryBoss) | |
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| May 9, 2013 at 16:18 | comment | added | sindrenm | Thanks for the suggestion, Andrew! Although I feel like “favourer” also is a bit of a hacky word, it does appear in the Oxford dictionaries, so I'll go with it for now. :-) | |
| May 9, 2013 at 16:11 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | I would suggest this is favourer, as in "someone who favours something". | |
| May 9, 2013 at 16:09 | history | asked | sindrenm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |