Meaning

6 senses
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.

    piepen

    пища́тьpiščátʹ, пи́скнутьpísknutʹ

  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

    piepsen

    speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice

  3. (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.

    lugen, linsen, illern

    подгля́дыватьpodgljádyvatʹ, загля́дыватьzagljádyvatʹ

  4. (dated, intransitive)To begin to appear; to make the first appearance.

  5. (slang, transitive)To take a look at; check out.

    Did you peep that video I sent you?

    look furtively

  6. (slang, transitive)To see, uncover.

Examples

57 sentences
  1. Were you peeping through the keyhole?

    ruТы подглядывал через замочную скважину? — Wezel

  2. The boy peeped in at the window.

    deDer Junge guckte zum Fenster herein. — Manfredo

  3. Tom opened the box and peeped in.

  4. I saw Tom peeping through your window.

  5. Tom surprised a peeping Tom in his garden.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
make a noise like a baby bird:
to look:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
make a noise like a baby bird:
speak briefly with a quiet voice:
to look:

Origin

From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to pe

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

From Middle English pepen, variant of piken.

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Forms

peeps, peeping, peeped, peeped
Base formpeep · to peep
3rd person singularpeeps
Present participlepeeping
Past simplepeeped
Past participlepeeped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypeep
he, she, itpeeps

Past simpleLesson

all personspeeped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave peeped
he, she, ithas peeped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill peep

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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