Pries vs Preacher - What's the difference?
pries | preacher |
(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.)
Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy or religion, especially someone who preaches the Quran or the gospel; a clergyman.
* 2004 , Garbi Schmidt, Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago , Page 171
As a verb pries
is third-person singular of pry.As a noun preacher is
someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the Quran or the gospel; a clergyman.As a proper noun Preacher is
alternative name for Ecclesiastes, the twenty-first book of the Old Testament.pries
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(head)Anagrams
* ----pry
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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.