speer

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5

Definition of speer

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A surname.
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name

  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. A place in the United States:
  4. A place in the United States:

verb

  1. (Scotland, archaic)to ask, to inquire
    “Afore lang days, I hope to see him here, / About his milkness and his cows to speer.”
    “"A town ca'd Glasgow!" echoed Andrew Fairservice. "Glasgow's a ceety, man.—And is't the way to Glasgow ye were speering if I ken'd?[…]"”

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Etymology

From Middle English spuren, from Old English spyrian, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with German spüren, Danish spørge, Norwegian Bokmål spørre, Swedish spörja.

Hooks

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