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Speer¹

proper noun Speers

  1. A surname.
  2. A neighbourhood of Denver, Colorado.
  3. An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
  4. A railroad location in Laramie County, Wyoming.

speer²

Sounds like spear

Where it comes from

From Middle English spuren, from Old English spyrian, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with German spüren, Danish spørge, Norwegian Bokmål spørre, Swedish spörja.

verb speers · speering · speered · spear · sper

  1. Scotland, archaic to ask, to inquire Afore lang days, I hope to see him here, / About his milkness and his cows to speer.

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@misc{speer_2026,
  title = {speer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/speer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}