eyer
eyer noun: one who eyes someone or something.
Noun
eyer (plural eyers)
- One who eyes someone or something.
- The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he...1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47
- You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.2010, Robert Coover, Noir, New York: Overlook Duckworth, page 97
Proper noun capitalized: Eyer
Eyer (plural Eyers)
- A surname.
Forms of eyer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | eyers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Eyers |
Origin of eyer
From eye + -er.
Questions about eyer
- What does eyer mean?
- Eyer means one who eyes someone or something.
- What part of speech is eyer?
- Eyer can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of eyer?
- The plural of eyer is eyers.
Words near eyer in the dictionary
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