leer
verb/lɪə(r)/
/lɪr/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they leer | /lɪə(r)/ /lɪr/ |
| he / she / it leers | /lɪəz/ /lɪrz/ |
| past simple leered | /lɪəd/ /lɪrd/ |
| past participle leered | /lɪəd/ /lɪrd/ |
| -ing form leering | /ˈlɪərɪŋ/ /ˈlɪrɪŋ/ |
- leer (at somebody) to look or smile at somebody in an unpleasant way that shows an evil or sexual interest in themTopics Appearancec2Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the general sense ‘look sideways or askance’): perhaps from obsolete leer ‘cheek’, from Old English hlēor, as though the sense were ‘to glance over one's cheek’.
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