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verb (used without object)
1.
to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
noun
2.
a lascivious or sly look.
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Origin:
1520–30; perhaps v. use of obsolete leer cheek (Middle English leor, Old English hlēor; cognate with Old Norse hlȳr (plural))
1520–30; perhaps v. use of obsolete leer cheek (Middle English leor, Old English hlēor; cognate with Old Norse hlȳr (plural))
Related forms
leer·ing·ly, adverb
Example Sentences
- Leer is la más fácil, para mí, much más fácil que escribir.
- Participantes internacionales por favor leer la nota de abajo.
- Un gran descubrimiento fue aprender a leer la escritura de los mayas.
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noun
noun
1.
protective shelter: The lee of the rock gave us some protection against the storm.
2.
the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind: We erected our huts under the lee of the mountain.
3.
Chiefly Nautical. the quarter or region toward which the wind blows.
adjective
Idioms4.
pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee.
5.
by the lee, Nautical. accidentally against what should be the lee side of a sail: Careless steering brought the wind by the lee.
6.
under the lee, Nautical. to leeward.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hlēo(w) shelter, cognate with Old Frisian hli, hly, Old Saxon hleo, Old Norse hlé
before 900; Middle English; Old English hlēo(w) shelter, cognate with Old Frisian hli, hly, Old Saxon hleo, Old Norse hlé
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Word Origin & History
lee
O.E. hleo "shelter," from P.Gmc. *khlewo- (cf. O.N. hle, Dan. læ, Du. lij "lee, shelter"); no known cognates outside Gmc.; original sense uncertain and may have been "warm" (cf. Ger. lau "tepid," O.N. hly "shelter, warmth").
EXPANDleer
"to look obliquely" (now usually implying "with a lustful or malicious intent"), 1530, from M.E. noun ler "cheek," from O.E. hleor "the cheek, the face," from P.Gmc. *khleuzas "near the ear," from *kleuso- "ear," from PIE root *kleu- "to hear" (see listen). The notion is
probably of "looking askance" (cf. figurative development of cheek). The noun is first attested 1598.
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