Payest vs Pryest - What's the difference?
payest | pryest |
(archaic) (pry)
To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
To look closely and curiously at.
* Shakespeare
The act of prying
An excessively inquisitive person
A lever.
Leverage.
To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)
As verbs the difference between payest and pryest
is that payest is archaic second-person singular of pay lang=en while pryest is archaic second-person singular of pry.pryest
English
Verb
(head)pry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pryen, . More at (l).Verb
(en-verb)- Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, / To pry into the secrets of the state.