AIDSer

English

Etymology

AIDS +‎ -er

Noun

AIDSer (plural AIDSers)

1. (informal, sometimes derogatory) A person suffering from AIDS.
   • 1985, Instauration, volume 11, page 2:

     My nominee for Majority Renegade of the Year? AIDSer Rock Hudson, who played a macho playboy on Dynasty knowing full well he was a victim of the homo plague. Not a nice man.

   • 2004, Ross Chambers, “Death at the Door”, in Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 44:

     This is most notably the case when the surviving writer is also an AIDSer (also surviving a dying) or is so closely bonded with the one who has died as to deny the difference in their identities (as, for example, in Monette's Borrowed Time).

Anagrams

• aiders, arised, deairs, idears, irades, raised, redias, resaid, saried