Synonyms for peeper
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pee-per |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpi pər |
Top 10 synonyms for peeper
- agent
- anuran
- baby blue
- bird dog
- blinder
- bloodhound
- bull
- constable
- cop
- depression
- dick
- downheartedness
- dumps
- eavesdropper
- eye
- eyeball
- eyes
- fed
- fink
- flatfoot
- gumshoe
- headlight
- heaviness of heart
- lamp
- low spirits
- lowness
- melancholy
- nark
- ocular
- oculus
- ogler
- optic
- P. I.
- P.I.
- peeper
- peepers
- pie
- plainclothes officer
- polliwog
- postpartum depression
- roper
- salientian
- scopophiliac
- scout
- sergeant
- shadow
- shamus
- Sherlock Holmes
- shoofly
- slewfoot
- snoop
- sycophant
- tadpole
- tail
- voyeur
- watcher
Définition of peeper
Origin :- 1650s, "one who peeps," agent noun from peep (v.1). Slang meaning "eye" is c.1700. From 1590s as "young chicken" and 1857 as "tree frog" (American English), both from peep (v.2).
- As in private eye : noun private detective
- As in baby blues : noun postnatal depression
- As in peeping Tom : noun person secretly watching others
- As in toad : noun amphibian
- As in detective : noun investigator of crime
- As in eye : noun optical organ of an animate being
- "You bet I'll keep a peeper on him," he bragged, reaching for his hat.
- Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
- You will not have much use of this peeper for a week or ten days to come.
- Extract from : « Lily Norris' Enemy » by Joanna Mathews
- Why, I've been longing for years to learn how peeper frogs peep.
- Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn
- Mrs. Spafford, a peeper through doors and keyholes, explained the schoolmarm's methods.
- Extract from : « Bunch Grass » by Horace Annesley Vachell
- I went back to the peeper screen just as Joey buzzed my signal again.
- Extract from : « Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- She ran to the window, evidently startling the peeper quite as much as she had been startled herself.
- Extract from : « Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp » by Annie Roe Carr
- A farmer going by told him it was only a "spring Peeper," whatever that was, "some kind of a critter in the water."
- Extract from : « Two Little Savages » by Ernest Thompson Seton
- But Scott, of course, had even less in common with the peeper and botanizer on maidens' hearts than with the wildest romanticist.
- Extract from : « Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete » by Sir Walter Scott
- He kept his eyes on the crosshair of the peeper, one hand over the timer button.
- Extract from : « Anchorite » by Randall Garrett
- He quietly sidled up to the hole where a peeper's nose made a knot on the tent on the inside.
- Extract from : « Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales » by Robert L. Taylor
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