[1890–95; teen2 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blip, plein-air, pogey, takedown, wireless-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)