Underpeer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Underpeer is a verb meaning (archaic) To look beneath something.
Meaning
(archaic) To look beneath something.
Example Sentences
Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision.
Word Forms
- underpeers
- underpeering
- underpeered
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