Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boy's spinning-top, set in motion by the pulling of a string.
- Peering; sharp-looking; expressive of curiosity or suspicion; inquisitive; curious; prying.
- Knowing; sly.
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- noun Scotland
spinning top - adjective rare That tends to
peer ;prying ,inquisitive ,curious . - adjective rare Of or pertaining to
peers or thepeerage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ai haz a bitt uv an awf-toppik kweschun – peery oddiklolee ai sea sumwun menshun a paij foar cheezepeeps awn teh buk ov fayses – wuud sumwun pweese letz mih noe wich wun itz izz?
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We will post reminder nownsemints peery oddically betwixt now and tehn.
Hmmmm… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Only, on my mind, more than my sight, I fancy, a queer knowledge remained of wet, peery eyes.
The Ghost Pirates 2007
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Here the old man, who had been watching with his little peery eyes, pulled the bulky Hector by the skirt, and whispered, “Do not vapour him the huff, it will not pass — let the trout play, he will rise to the hook presently.”
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There was this time when we were workin 'on a knot from Urbs. We knew who they was and what they was after, and was peery a while to see what they done and who they talked to.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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She acknowleged that his nose was good, but his eyes were small, peery, and too close together, and his head shelved backward like an ape's.
The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand
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Only, on my mind, more than my sight, I fancy, a queer knowledge remained of wet, peery eyes.
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` People got so peery, 'complained the great man, ` that ingenious men were put to dreadful shifts.'
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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'People got so peery,' complained the great man, 'that ingenious men were put to dreadful shifts.'
A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894
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Here the old man, who had been watching with his little peery eyes, pulled the bulky Hector by the skirt, and whispered, "Do not vapour him the huff, it will not pass -- let the trout play, he will rise to the hook presently."
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
minerva commented on the word peery
Inquisitive (see also nosy).
December 19, 2007