leer
Meaning of leer
verb
- look or gaze in a lascivious or unpleasant way.
bystanders were leering at the nude painting
- a lascivious or unpleasant look.
he gave me a sly leer
mid 16th century (in the general sense ‘look sideways or askance’): perhaps from obsolete leer ‘cheek’, from Old English hlēor, as though the sense were ‘to glance over one's cheek’.
noun
variant spelling of lehr.
noun
a furnace used for the annealing of glass.
mid 17th century: of unknown origin.
Information about leer
- The plural form of leer is: leers.
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Hyphenation of leer
leer
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- leer is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
leer synonyms
Meaning sneer:
Meaning stare at in a lecherous manner:
Meaning look at closely or with interest:
Meaning look at or observe attentively over a period of time:
Meaning look fixedly or vacantly at someone or something with one's eyes wide open:
Meaning look with wide open eyes, typically in amazement:
Meaning stare openly in a stupid or rude manner:
Meaning stare openly and stupidly:
Anagrams of leer
Words that rhyme with leer
cymbaleer, Tracleer, chanticleer, cameleer, canceleer, roundeleer, fleer, fusileer, missileer, bandoleer, pistoleer, overleer, sleer
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