different between peer vs squire

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”). Or, possibly from a shortening of appear.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??/
• (General American) enPR: pîr, IPA^(key): /pi?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: pier

Verb

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

1. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
   • c. 1696, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] I should be still

     Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,

     Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, Part III, p. 17,^[2]

     And strait the Sun was fleck’d with bars

     (Heaven’s mother send us grace)

     As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d

     With broad and burning face.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter I, p. 10,^[3]

     He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914, Chapter 6, p. 65,^[4]

     He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,^[5]

     And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,

     So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

   • 1611, Ben Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: Walter Burre, Act III,^[6]

     See, how his gorget peeres aboue his gowne;

Derived terms

• overpeer

Translations

Noun

peer (plural peers)

1. A look; a glance.
   • 1970, William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, The British journal of photography (volume 117, page 58)

     Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]

Etymology 2

From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin p?r. Doublet of pair and par

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??/
• (General American) enPR: pîr, IPA^(key): /pi?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: pier

Noun

peer (plural peers)

1. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).

   • In song he never had his peer.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers?

2. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
3. A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

   a peer of the realm
4. A comrade; a companion; an associate.

Translations

Verb

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

1. To make equal in rank.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Heylin to this entry?)

2. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.

Derived terms

• peer-to-peer

Related terms

• peer assessment
• peer review, peer reviewed
• peer pressure
• peerless
• the Peers

Etymology 3

pee +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pi?.?/
• (General American) enPR: pîr, IPA^(key): /pi.?/

Noun

peer (plural peers)

1. (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

Anagrams

• pere, père

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch peer, from Middle Dutch p?re, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???r/

Noun

peer (plural pere)

1. pear

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch p?re, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?r/, [p??r]
• Hyphenation: peer
• Rhymes: -e?r

Noun

peer f (plural peren, diminutive peertje n)

1. A pear, a fruit of the pear tree.
2. A light bulb.

Derived terms

• handpeer
• muilpeer
• perensap
• perenwijn
• stoofpeer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: peer

Noun

peer m (plural peren, diminutive peertje n)

1. A pear tree, Pyrus communis.
   • 1911, H. Heukels, Kennis Der Natuur A. Leerboek der dierkunde, plantkunde en natuurkunde voor a.s. onderwijzers, vol. II "dierkunde", page 77.

Anagrams

• reep

Middle English

Noun

peer

1. Alternative form of pere (“peer”)

Adjective

peer

1. Alternative form of pere (“equal”)

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pir/

Etymology 1

From Middle English pere (“pear”), from Old English pere, peru, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.

Noun

peer (plural peers)

1. pear (fruit)

Derived terms

• peerie

Etymology 2

From Middle English piren (“to peer”).

Verb

peer (third-person singular present peers, present participle peerin, past peert, past participle peert)

1. To peer.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin p?dere, present active infinitive of p?d?, from Proto-Italic *pezd? (“to fart”) from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to fart”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?e?/, [pe?e?]

Verb

peer (first-person singular present peo, first-person singular preterite peí, past participle peído)

1. to break wind, to fart
2. (reflexive) to break wind; fart

Conjugation

Related terms

• peerse
• pedo
• pedorrear

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skwa??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skwa???/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English esquire, from Old French escuier, from Latin sc?t?rius (“shield-bearer”), from sc?tum (“shield”).

Noun

squire (plural squires)

1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
3. A male attendant on a great personage.
4. A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
5. A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
6. (Britain, colloquial) Term of address to a male equal.
   • 1969, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Dead Parrot sketch

     Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.

Derived terms

• squirearchy
• squiress

Translations

Verb

squire (third-person singular simple present squires, present participle squiring, simple past and past participle squired)

1. (transitive) To attend as a squire.
   • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” lines 303-307,^[1]

     And yet of our apprentice Ianekyn,

     For his crisp heer, shyninge as gold so fyn,

     And for he squiereth me bothe up and doun,

     Yet hastow caught a fals suspecioun;

     I wol hym noght, thogh thou were deed to-morwe.

2. (transitive) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.
   • 1753, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Chapter 48, ^[2]

     On some occasions, he displayed all his fund of good humour, with a view to beguile her sorrow; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of squiring her to some place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, insisted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, which he knew to be in a most consumptive condition.

   • 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, “On Dress,” in The Bee, 13 October, 1759,^[3]

     Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.

   • 1812, Henry Weber (ed.), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 3, p. 326, footnote 3,^[4]

     To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire.

   • 1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth, Chapter 4,^[5]

     Yes, such a thing as thou wouldst make of me should wear a book at his girdle instead of a poniard, and might just be suspected of manhood enough to squire a proud dame-citizen to the lecture at Saint Antonlin’s, and quarrel in her cause with any flat-capped threadmaker that would take the wall of her.

   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Part One, Chapter 1,^[6]

     And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one’s liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.

   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Six,

     A butch entered squiring a blonde whore tottering along on spike heels under dairy whip hair, her chubby hand rising again and again to tuck a stray wisp back into the creamy dome.

   Synonym: escort

Etymology 2

From Middle English squire, borrowed from Middle French esquierre (“rule, carpenter's square”), or from Old French esquire, another form of esquarre (“square”). Cognate with French équerre. Doublet of square.

Noun

squire (plural squires)

1. (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
   • 1598, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.

   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V, 2, 474.

     do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.

   • as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole, […].

   • 1628, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, 4, 348.

     twelve foot and a half by the squire.

Anagrams

• Squier, quires, risque, risqué, squier