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Prying vs Peery - What's the difference?

prying | peery |

As nouns the difference between prying and peery

is that prying is the act of one who pries while peery is (scotland) spinning top.

As a verb prying

is .

As an adjective peery is

(rare) that tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.

prying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.

    peery

    English

    Noun

    (peeries)
  • (Scotland) spinning top

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.
  • * Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth
    • Two peery grey eyes.
  • (rare) Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage.