underpeer

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To look beneath something. archaic
    — 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.

词形变化

underpeers present,singular,third-person underpeering participle,present underpeered participle,past underpeered past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan
Old English *pȳran
Middle English peren
English peer
English underpeer
From under- + peer.
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