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peep¹

  • /piːp/ UK
  • /pip/ US

Sounds like Peep, PEEP · Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.

noun peeps

  1. in the negative A feeble utterance or complaint. I don't want to hear a peep out of you!
  2. collective A brood of chicks (young chickens). Two big canopy beds packed with kilims and cushions in the corner of the hut are lit warmly in the glow of the paraffin lanterns as a peep of chicks run inside, quite bravely I think, since their elder relative just got the chop.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill. With a "peep" from a high-pitched whistle, the train would leave by the crossover to the down line, […].
  4. colloquial A sandpiper or other small wader. When I spotted two small warm-brown scaley-plumaged ‘peeps’ with yellow legs, my commentary immediately identified them as Least Sandpipers.

verb peeps · peeping · peeped

  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

peep²

  • /piːp/ UK
  • /pip/ US

Sounds like Peep, PEEP · Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

From Middle English pepen, variant of piken.

verb peeps · peeping · peeped

  1. intransitive To look forth from concealment, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed. The man peeped through the small hole.

    Similar: keek

  2. dated, intransitive To begin to appear; to make the first appearance. When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear.
  3. slang, transitive To take a look at; check out. Did you peep that video I sent you?
  4. slang, transitive To see, uncover. A lot of females were hesitant about getting with Pimp. He had a hard edge to him that made it impossible not to peep his cruel nature.

noun peeps

  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one. So saying she loosened some ivory screws of the guitar, so as to open a peep lengthwise through its interior.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear. the peep of day
  3. A peepshow. A boring lusterless attempt at pornography, a niche above the racks of pulp pocketbooks sold in the front room of peeps.

peep³

  • /piːp/ UK
  • /pip/ US

Sounds like Peep, PEEP · Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

Uncertain; perhaps variant of pip.

noun peeps

  1. obsolete A spot on a die or domino.

    Similar: pip

peep⁴

  • /piːp/ UK
  • /pip/ US

Sounds like Peep, PEEP · Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

Back-formation from peeps, a shortened form of people.

noun peeps

  1. UK, slang A person.

peep⁵

  • /piːp/ UK
  • /pip/ US

Sounds like Peep, PEEP · Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

Genericized trademark from the confection brand Peeps.

noun peeps

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Peep

Peep⁶

  • /piːp/ UK
  • /pip/ US

Sounds like peep, PEEP · Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

Genericized trademark from the confection brand Peeps, owned by Just Born, Inc.

noun Peeps

  1. US A soft marshmallow confection, shaped into a baby animal for Easter celebration.

PEEP⁷

  • /piːp/ UK
  • /pip/ US

Sounds like peep, Peep · Rhymes with -iːp

noun

  1. slang A World War II jeep attached to an armored regiment.
  2. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of positive end-expiratory pressure

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cheep, peek, chirp, pip, iep, noise, bo, pep, mot, cheating, cheat, sound, sign, word, look, see

Translations

Every language

noun quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird

Españolpío
Françaispépiement
DeutschPieps
Italianocinguettio, pigolio, squittio
Русскийписк pisk

noun feeble utterance or complaint

DeutschPieps
Italianoborbottio, brontolio, mugugno

verb make a noise like a baby bird

Españolpiar
Deutschpiepen
Italianocinguettare
Русскийпища́ть piščátʹ, пи́скнуть písknutʹ

verb speak briefly with a quiet voice

Deutschpiepsen

verb to look

中文偷看 tōukàn
Portuguêsespreitar, espiar
Françaisépier, regarder furtivement
Deutschlugen, linsen, illern, herausgucken, hervorgucken
Italianospuntare, sbirciare
Русскийподгля́дывать podgljádyvatʹ, загля́дывать zagljádyvatʹ

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@misc{peep_2026,
  title = {peep},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peep},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}