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Peery   Listen
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Peery, Peerie  adj.  Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.) "Two peery gray eyes."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Peery" Quotes from Famous Books



... together, excited their curiosity; and they engaged a peery servant, as they called a footman who was drinking with Kit. the hostler, at the tap-house, to watch all her motions. This fellow reported the following particulars, ...
— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson

... Halcro, laddie. Tak the peerie stone, see, and have a care that ye dinna lose it;" and she handed to me the ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton



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