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keener

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keener /ˈkēnər, ˈkinər /
noun
1 a person who wails or sings in grief for a dead person:
a team of five keeners was hired to cry on the way to escort their father to the crematorium.
2 Canadian informal or British dialect a person who is extremely eager, zealous, or enthusiastic:
keeners who spent most of high school buried in homework.