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peerie1, pierie, pieri noun a foot 19-. etymology: Romany pire ‘feet’, pire-gueros ‘travellers’ which is possibly a development from Hindi pair ‘a human foot’; also attested by Kirk Yetholm Gypsies, and Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also known in other Scots dialects; also collected by Simson (1865); forms pieri, peerie collected by Joseph F G S Lucas and Rev John Baird respectively from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

The Scots term peerie heels ‘high heels; stiletto heels on a woman’s shoes’ was first attested in the 1950s but seems to be a development from Scots peerie, ‘a spinning top’, or the Orcadian peedie ‘small’.

Grellmann (1787) collected the form Piro with the same meaning from Continental gipsies.