leer
verb
[ lɪə ]
• look or gaze in a lascivious or unpleasant way.
• "bystanders were leering at the nude painting"
Similar:
ogle,
look lasciviously,
look suggestively,
give sly looks to,
eye,
watch,
stare,
goggle,
give someone the glad eye,
give someone a/the once-over,
lech after/over,
drool over,
gawp,
gawk,
perv on,
leer
noun
• a lascivious or unpleasant look.
• "he gave me a sly leer"
Similar:
lecherous look,
lascivious look,
suggestive look,
ogle,
sly glance,
stare,
the glad eye,
the once-over,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the general sense ‘look sideways or askance’): perhaps from obsolete leer ‘cheek’, from Old English hlēor, as though the sense were ‘to glance over one's cheek’.
leer
noun
• variant spelling of lehr.
lehr
noun
• a furnace used for the annealing of glass.
Origin:
mid 17th century: of unknown origin.
