different between peerer vs jeerer

English

Etymology

peer +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????(?)
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Noun

peerer (plural peerers)

1. Someone who peers.
   • 2010, Geoff Dyer, Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 (page 282)

     People regarded her in the same way tourists do the soldiers on Horse Guards Parade, peering at her while she was being photographed. One of these peerers was me. I wondered what it must be like to exist in this I-am-seen-therefore-I-am trance.

English

Etymology

jeer +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????(?)

Noun

jeerer (plural jeerers)

1. One who jeers; a mocker.
   • 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act V, Scene 2, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: G. & W. Nicol, Volume v, p. 305,^[1]

     Fitton. Pox o’ these true jests, I say!

     Madrigal. He’ll turn the better jeerer.

   • 1658, John Bunyan, A Few Sighs from Hell, or the Groans of a Damned Soul, in The Works of John Bunyan, London: W. Johnston, 1767, 3rd edition, Volume I, p. 493,^[2]

     […] what good will my vanities do, when death says he will have no nay? What good will all my companions, fellow-jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me? Will they help to ease the pains of hell?

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, “The Marchioness of Stonehenge” in A Group of Noble Dames, New York: Harper & Bros., p. 130,^[3]

     “Victory over such unkind jeerers would be sweet,” said Lady Caroline.

   • 1974, Anthony Burgess, Napoleon Symphony, New York: Knopf, Part II,

     On either side of the narrow way were massed laughers and jeerers.

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