peery
nounEtymology Borrowed from Scots peerie.
1
Scotland spinning top
peery
adjEtymology From peer + -y.
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, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, which had a droll obliquity of vision, approaching to a squint, though perhaps not a decided one.1821, Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth:
2
Rare Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage.