See Also: -ster(medicine)
ster(dictionary)

ster (iou)



-ster suffix.

Forming nouns from nouns or adjectives (formerly also from verbs) denoting a person (orig. a woman) engaged in or associated with a particular activity, esp. as an occupation or profession (cf. -ER1), as brewster, maltster, spinster, tapster, etc., or denoting a person associated with a particular quality, as oldster, youngster, etc.; occas. derog., as in jokester, rhymester, trickster, etc.