peerer

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Australia, UK/ˈpɪəɹə/US/ˈpɪɹɚ/US/ˈpɪəɹə(ɹ)/US/ˈpiɹə(ɹ)/

noun

Someone who peers.

OriginEnglish peer ← Middle English peren ← Old English *pȳran →
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Meanings

nounpeerer (plural peerers)

plural peerers

  1. Someone who peers.

    People regarded her in the same way tourists do the soldiers on Horse Guards Parade, peering at her while she was being photographed. One of these peerers was me. I wondered what it must be like to exist in this I-am-seen-therefore-I-am trance.

    2010, Geoff Dyer, Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010, page 282

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*pūrijan
  2. Old English*pȳran
  3. Middle Englishperen
  4. Englishpeer
  5. Englishpeerer

From peer + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with peerer

clearernearershearerhearersteererfearerjeererspearer
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Sounds the same

pairer (cheer–chair merger)
Cite this entry
APA

peerer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peerer

MLA

“peerer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peerer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “peerer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peerer.

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