pree
/priː
/verb [with object] Scottish
Sample or taste (something): she preed her tea from her teaspoon...
- I insist on your preeing a Scotch brandy-posset.
- After preeing the whisky bottle, the young farmer again set out through the deep snow.
- You are in the practice of giving your customers a dram, but first preeing or smelling the liquor yourself.
Origin
Early 16th century (in sense 'to prove or establish'): variant of prove. Compare with gie.