surfer

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English suffe? English suff? English surf Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English surfer From surf + -er.

1. A person who rides a surfboard.

   “When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]”

   “A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.”

2. A person who surfs the Internet.
3. A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).