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peerier

peerier is the comparative form of peerie.

peerier is the comparative form of peery.

Meaning of peerie

Adjective

peerie (comparative peerier, superlative peeriest)

  1. (Orkney, Shetland) Small, tiny.

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Meaning of peery

Adjective

peery (comparative more peery or peerier, superlative most peery or peeriest)

  1. (rare) That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.
    • The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled...1821, Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth
  2. (rare) Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage.

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Questions about peerier

What is peerier the comparative form of?
Peerier is the comparative form of peerie.

Words near peerier in the dictionary

  1. peeresses
  2. peerest
  3. peereth
  4. peerhood
  5. peerie
  6. peerier
  7. peeries
  8. peeriest
  9. peerification
  10. peering
  11. peeringly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peerier (page history and authors); peerie (page history and authors); peery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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