peeryEtymologyFrom peer + -y.nameA surname.adjThat tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.“The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, which had a droll obliquity of v”Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage.nounspinning top