Synonyms for peeking

Grammar : Verb

Spell : peek

Phonetic Transcription : pik

Top 10 synonyms for peeking

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Définition of peeking

Origin : late 14c., piken "look quickly and slyly," of unknown origin. The words peek, keek, and peep all were used with more or less the same meaning 14c.-15c.; perhaps the ultimate source was Middle Dutch kieken. Related: Peeked; peeking.

verb sneak a look
verb glimpse

Example sentences :

Mebbe he's seen us peeking out and thinks it's time he sheered off?
Extract from : « Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys » by Silas K. Boone

We often see her peeking through a crack in the door when Janchu is naughty.
Extract from : « Trapped in 'Black Russia' » by Ruth Pierce

You go away and let me do the peeking and listening for you around these parts.
Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

And before daylight half of the town was peeking in through the windows at us.
Extract from : « Flash-lights from the Seven Seas » by William L. Stidger

“That should cure us of peeking into windows,” Brad lectured Babe.
Extract from : « Dan Carter and the Money Box » by Mildred A. Wirt

Had he, by any chance, seen him peeking in at the window, through the lilac-bushes?
Extract from : « Cursed » by George Allan England

And I've got my mind set on peeking through a first-class tube.
Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by George Allan England

Now, who was that peeking at me around the corner of that bunk house?
Extract from : « The Broncho Rider Boys on the Wyoming Trail » by Frank Fowler

In other words, you want to know why I was peeking into your window at this time of the day!
Extract from : « Hope Hathaway » by Frances Parker

Therefore he listened, peeking around the doorway of his dark room.
Extract from : « The Copy-Cat and Other Stories » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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