Definitions for leer

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Spelling: [leer]

IPA: /lɪər/

Leer is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in leer (eelr).

Definitions for leer

noun

1. a lascivious or sly look.
2. lehr.
3. protective shelter:
4. the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind:
5. Chiefly Nautical. the quarter or region toward which the wind blows.

Idioms

1. by the lee, Nautical. accidentally against what should be the lee side of a sail:
2. under the lee, Nautical. to leeward.

adjective

1. having no burden or load.
2. faint for lack of food; hungry.
3. pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee.

verb (used without object)

1. to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention:

Origin of leer

1520-30; perhaps v. use of obsolete leer cheek (Middle English leor, Old English hlēor; cognate with Old Norse hlȳr (plural))

Examples for leer

"And they'll go to Havana as they wanted to," put in another, with a leer.

Then he peered into Hugh Ritson's face with a leer of triumph.

"Father Glynn, of Luke Street," growled out the imp, with a leer.

Between the leer of the man and the smile of the girl, where lay the difference?

"If your cask is leer, I warrant your purse is full, gaffer," shouted Hordle John.

But this house seemed to leer at you through a filthy parade of modesty.

"A connection of the family, on the mother's side," said Terry, with a leer.

He is like you would imagine a young hipster Clark Gable would be and he's got a leer on him that won't quit.

I believe he tried to leer at me, because his voice was absolutely dying in his throat.

“Sure, I thought your honour was from the police,” said the man with a leer.