Antonyms for peeks
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : peek |
| Phonetic Transcription : pik |
Definition of peeks
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.
- noun sneaked look
- verb sneak a look
- verb glimpse
- "I haven't had my breakfast yet," I said, as Peeks came down into the cabin.
- Extract from : « Down South » by Oliver Optic
- It is about six o'clock in the evening, when he peeks through the periscope.
- Extract from : « Walking Shadows » by Alfred Noyes
- Then he turns it round and round again, and at last lifts it above his head and peeks into it.
- Extract from : « Wild Wales » by George Borrow
- Then she kind of peeks at you outen the corner of her eye and smiles.
- Extract from : « The Soldier of the Valley » by Nelson Lloyd
- Then he is always managing to stand or sit near her, and he peeks at her book when she is reading.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 » by Various
- Had not Walter scented trouble he would soon have been made aware of it by the excitement that prevailed in the Peeks' kennels.
- Extract from : « Walter and the Wireless » by Sara Ware Bassett
- And he has a horse, Mr. Mazzini has, a fat old plug that peeks around his blinders as humorously as his master.
- Extract from : « Vignettes Of San Francisco » by Almira Bailey
- Betty peeks cautiously out, but hearing footsteps quickly withdraws.
- Extract from : « Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Sir James M. Barrie
- If a man tells him it's a nice day, he goes to the window and peeks out before takin' a walk without his umbrella.
- Extract from : « Lord Loveland Discovers America » by C. N. Williamson
- I told my father that Peeks had been obliged to leave, and that I must look up a steward at once.
- Extract from : « Up the River » by Oliver Optic
Synonyms for peeks
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