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Priles vs Pries - What's the difference?

priles | pries |

As a noun priles

is .

As a verb pries is

.

priles

English

Noun

(head)
  • Anagrams

    * * * * * *

    pries

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pry)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    pry

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pryen, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
  • To look closely and curiously at.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, / To pry into the secrets of the state.

    Noun

  • The act of prying
  • An excessively inquisitive person
  • Etymology 2

    1800, ("lever"), construed as a plural noun or as a 3rd person singular verb.

    Noun

    (pries)
  • A lever.
  • Leverage.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)