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Peep   /pip/   Listen
noun
Peep  n.  
1.
The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.
2.
First outlook or appearance. "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn."
3.
A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment. "To take t' other peep at the stars."
4.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).
(b)
The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
Peep show, a small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass.
Peep-o'-day boys, the Irish insurgents of 1784; so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. (Cant)



verb
Peep  v. i.  (past & past part. peeped; pres. part. peeping)  
1.
To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep. "There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped."
2.
To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance; as, the sun peeped over the eastern hills. "When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear."
3.
To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry. "Peep through the blanket of the dark." "From her cabined loophole peep."
Peep sight, an adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.






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"Peep" Quotes from Famous Books



... dawn began to peep, Have I lain with stifled breath; Heard thee moaning in thy sleep, As thou wert at ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun

... at Comrie. It is an obelisk, 72 feet high, built in 1812 of Innergeldie granite. A better site could not have been chosen. From the top of Dunmore Hill there is a magnificent view of varied landscape. To the west you have a peep at Loch Earn, the Aberuchill Hills, and the old white-washed Castle nestling among its trees; to the south you have the village of Comrie and the strath, with the Earn and the Ruchill winding their way through ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various

... does anything without due deliberation; therefore he may, for quarter of an our, discuss with his wife the possible purport of the visit, before he goes out to see the man. They peep through the cracks in the wall at him, and if they happen to be eating or doing anything, they may keep the visitor waiting for half an hour. Finally the host shakes out the blanket on which he has been sitting, throws it around himself, and, casting ...
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... to see it in all its beauty, when in every narrow valley and on every slope, the most exquisite flowers are growing luxuriantly. And the roses! fields, hedges, groves of roses. They climb up the walls, blossom on the roofs, hang from the trees, peep out from among the bushes; they are white, red, yellow, large and small, single, with a simple self-colored dress, or full and heavy in ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... by throwing pieces of roll out over the lattice to the street children, whose black eyes and black fingers appear through the slats. Each piece is received with squeals, a grand rush and protracted squabbling, and finally the more audacious appear at the door. They peep in, throw us a flower and then scuttle away. One tiny beggar brings a small bouquet and puts it in my lap. The Baron gives her a media and says something about "vamos." She flies off, but only to tell the rest of the success of her mission, and the whole horde ...
— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins


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