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From bellows + -er, from bellows (“the lungs”); (life sentence): because people continue to breathe until they die.
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From bellows + -er, from bellows (“the lungs”); (life sentence): because people continue to breathe until they die.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.