leer
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Is leer a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of leer?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.Examples: "And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon."; "I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be."; "The Baroness perceived that her entertainer had analyzed material comfort to a sufficiently fine point. And then he possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and leering on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully figured hand-screens; […]"Synonyms: ogleintransitive
2. (transitive) To entice with a leer or leers.Examples: "But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, / To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin."transitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) The cheek.Examples: "No ladie (quoth the earle with a lowd voice, and the tears trilling downe his leeres)"obsolete
2. (obsolete) The face.obsolete
3. (obsolete) One's appearance; countenance.Examples: "a Rosalind of a better leer than you"obsolete
4. (obsolete) Complexion; hue; colour.Examples: "Here's a young lad fram'd of another leer. Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father;"obsolete
5. (obsolete) Flesh; skin.obsolete
6. (UK dialectal) The flank or loin.UKdialectal
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Empty; unoccupied; clear.Examples: "The horse runs leere away without the man."Synonyms: vacant, void, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, clean, leer, toomobsolete
2. (obsolete) Destitute; lacking; wanting.Synonyms: absent, awanting, absent, awanting, bereft of, deficient of, deprived of, destitute ofobsolete
3. (obsolete) Faint from lack of food; hungry.obsolete
4. (UK dialectal, obsolete) Thin; faint.UKdialectalobsolete
5. (obsolete) Having no load or burden; free; without a rider.Examples: "a leer horse"obsolete
6. (obsolete) Lacking sense or seriousness; trifling; frivolous.Examples: "leer words"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To teach.obsoletetransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To learn.obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary