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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
leer is a noun and verb meaning "a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a suggestive or sneering look or grin
look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
“The men leered at the young women on the beach”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for leer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.