Crossword-Solution: PEERY 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Peery a. Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.

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Describing a curious gaze. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PEERY (5)

Here the old man, who had been watching with his little peery eyes, pulled the bulky Hector by the skirt, and whispered, “Do not vapour him the huff, it will not pass--let the trout play, he will rise to the hook presently.” But the bully, confiding in his own strength, and probably mistaking for timidity the patient scorn with which Nigel received his proposals, incited also by the open casket, began to assume a louder and more threatening tone.
The Fortunes of Nigel Sir Walter Scott 2004
Daniel Taffril;—mony's the peery and the tap I worked for him langsyne, for I was a worker in wood as weel as a tinkler." "You are either mad, Adam, or have a mind to drive me mad." "Nane o' the twa," said Edie, suddenly changing his manner from the protracted drawl of the mendicant to a brief and decided tone.
The Antiquary, Volume 1 Sir Walter Scott 2004
Daniel Taffril;--mony’s the peery and the tap I worked for him langsyne, for I was a worker in wood as weel as a tinkler.” “You are either mad, Adam, or have a mind to drive me mad.” “Nane o’ the twa,” said Edie, suddenly changing his manner from the protracted drawl of the mendicant to a brief and decided tone.
The Antiquary, Complete Sir Walter Scott 2006
The sweet-voiced meadowlark with its placid, simple song of _peery-eery-ódical_ was another favorite, and we soon learned to admire the Baltimore oriole and its wonderful hanging nests, and the scarlet tanager glowing like fire amid the green leaves.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 2006
The English are allowed by the rest of the world, and I believe with some degree of justice, to be a generous, charitable people; but the Otaheiteans could not help bestowing the most contemptuous word in their language upon us, which is, Peery Peery, or Stingy.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Edward Edwards 2007
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1956).