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Someone rooting for you so loudly they forget to actually help.
means A person who hopes for another's happiness, health, or success, and says so — often without any practical involvement.
from A transparent compound of "well" (good, favorably) and "wisher" (one who wishes), the kind of self-explaining English word that needs no translation. "Well-wisher" as a fixed phrase dates back centuries — it appears in early modern English — built on the older sense of "well" as an adverb meaning "in a good or favorable way," the same "well" hiding in "welcome," "welfare," and "farewell." To wish someone well is among the oldest sentiments in the language; this just names the one doing it.
- old soul
- The word dates back over 450 years
- anonymous edge
- Threat notes often signed a concerned wellwisher
- two words once
- Began as well-wisher before fusing together
- verb cousin
- Comes from wishing someone well, literally
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