Synonyms for peeps
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : peeps |
| Phonetic Transcription : pips |
Top 10 synonyms for peeps Other synonyms for the word peeps
Définition of peeps
Origin :- "glance" (especially through a small opening), mid-15c., perhaps alteration of Middle English piken (see peek (v.)). Peeping Tom "a curious prying fellow" [Grose] is from 1796; connection with Lady Godiva story dates only from 1837.
- noun sneaked look
- noun chirp
- verb sneak a look
- verb appear briefly
- We perforce took our peeps at nature from behind the barriers.
- Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
- In your minds a memory lingers,And it peeps the bars between!
- Extract from : « Golden Moments » by Anonymous
- At last he goes to th' kettle, and lifts up the lid, and peeps in.
- Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- But this one peeps as if he was hurt; see how he pecks to get in.
- Extract from : « Dotty Dimple At Home » by Sophie May
- You know it, Prudy, how it peeps out from a tangle of little tendrils?
- Extract from : « Aunt Madge's Story » by Sophie May
- Basil, who has come forward, peeps round the corner of the dormitory.
- Extract from : « The Saxons » by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
- I gathered all this from the peeps I had through the periscope.
- Extract from : « Australia in Arms » by Phillip F.E. Schuler
- Patrice Egan peeps from behind, his rabbitface nibbling a quince leaf.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- But the Frenchman peeps out under the panegyrist, after all.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 » by Various
- Miss Lavinia peeps in, and tells me mysteriously that she will not be long.
- Extract from : « The Personal History of David Copperfield » by Charles Dickens
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