- 1有戒心；對某人不放心、存疑
When you are leery of someone or something, you do not relax with them. You keep a little distance and watch, because you do not quite trust them yet. It is not loud fear, and it is not a fight. It is the feeling of “I had better be careful here.” People are leery of a deal that sounds too good, a website that wants too much information, a stranger’s sudden kindness, or a promise from someone who has let them down before. The word is informal — fine in speech and in easy writing, a little too for a law paper. You can be leery of a person, leery of a thing, or leery of doing something. Though actually, it sits very close to wary, and many speakers use the two in the same places; leery often has a slightly stronger smell of “this might be a trick.”
組成First written down in 1718, meaning untrustful and suspicious. It may come from leer (a look to the side) + -y, or from lear (an old word for learning or knowledge) + -y. Scholars are not sure which.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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leeryadj/ˈlɪəɹi/
- 1
Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns.
- Since he was bitten by a dog when he was young, he has always been leery of animals.
- “[…]He was one of their top gun-fighters—always up to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much for'm.”
- 2
obsoleteslangSly; artful; knowing.
- 3
Leering; lecherous or unpleasant.
- And there was a particularly brutal villain with leery eyes, ugly mouth, with one tooth gone, and an iron jaw like a hull-dog's.
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