Usually means: Suspiciously curious or inquisitively wary.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. peery: Merriam-Webster
  2. peery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. peery: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Peery, peery: Wordnik
  5. Peery, peery: Wiktionary
  6. Peery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Peery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Peery: Rhymezone
  9. Peery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. Peery: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  11. peery: FreeDictionary.org

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (Peery)

adjective:  (rare) That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.
adjective:  (rare) Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage.
noun:  (Scotland) spinning top
noun:  A surname.

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