Crossword clues for peeped
peeped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peep \Peep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peeped; p. pr. & vb. n. Peeping.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. pipen, F. piper, p['e]pier, L. pipire, pipare, pipiare, D. & G. piepen. Senses 2 and 3 perhaps come from a transfer of sense from the sound which chickens make upon the first breaking of the shell to the act accompanying it; or perhaps from the influence of peek, or peak. Cf. Pipe.]
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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.
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To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear.
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To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
eep through the blanket of the dark.
--Shak.From her cabined loophole peep.
--Milton.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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: peep)
Usage examples of "peeped".
Rough Tail set off in hot pursuit, he was peeped deeply and thoroughly.
TheBeaumont 's secretaries went on record that Reich couldn't be peeped because he had a song kicking around in his skull.
As the Rough Tail set off in hot pursuit, he was peeped deeply and thoroughly.
It never occurred to him that his intent had been peeped by Monarch's Esper Personnel Chief, reported upstairs, and that upstairs was quietly chuckling.
Powell struck up conversations with strangers, described his dear old friends in half a dozen languages, and peeped gently to make sure they had the precise picture of Reich and Hassop before they answered.
He slipped past her conscious barrier and peeped her precisely and comprehensively for ten seconds.
I checked that when I peeped you with Barbara just now I had every detail except one, and that one flaw blew my case out into deep space.
Strange and pale little faces peeped out at him through glassless windows.
And as to the sordid and startling disclosures of what the private investigator actually saw when he peeped in through the hotel bedroom window, those get our juices flowing fair to the onset of dehydration.