eyerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

eyer (複数形 eyers)

1. One who eyes someone or something.
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,^[1]

     The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.

   • 2010, Robert Coover, Noir‎^[2], New York: Overlook Duckworth, page 97:

     You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.

アナグラム

• Eyre, Reye, eery, eyre, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere