Peerest vs Jeerest - What's the difference?
peerest | jeerest |
(archaic) (peer)
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
to come in sight; to appear.
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
* Dryden
* Isaac Taylor
# Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
* Milton
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
* Spenser
to make equal in rank.
(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
(archaic) (jeer)
A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
* 1711 , , The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift , D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5,
To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
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(archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt; to flout.
* Ben Jonson
(nautical) A gear; a tackle.
(nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
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Verb
(head)peer
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(wikipedia peer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
- as if through a dungeon grate he peered
- He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
- He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
- So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
- See how his gorget peers above his gown!
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In song he never had his peer .
- Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
- a peer of the realm
- a noble peer of mickle trust and power
- He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Verb
(en verb)- (Heylin)
Derived terms
* peer-to-peerEtymology 3
Anagrams
* ----jeerest
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Verb
(head)jeer
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Etymology 1
Perhaps a corruption of ).Noun
(en noun)- Midas, exposed to all their jeers , Had lost his art, and kept his ears.
Verb
(en verb)- But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer .
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- And if we cannot jeer' them, we ' jeer ourselves.
