peeping
present participle ofpeep
peep
verb
uk/piːp/us/piːp/peepverb(LOOK)
C2[Iusually+ adv/prep]
tosecretlylookat something for ashorttime, usually through ahole:
Isawher peepingthroughthecurtains/intotheroom.
to look at someone or something
- lookLook over there! A rainbow!
- watchI sat by the window and watched people walking past.
- glanceShe glanced around the room to see who was there.
- peepShe peeped through the curtains to see what was happening.
- peekHe peeked inside the box.
- stareDon't stare at people like that - it's rude.
Using the eyes
- accommodate
- accommodation
- all eyes are onsomeone/somethingidiom
- astigmatic
- beholder
- butcher
- corner
- fix
- gaze
- glare
- glass
- lookout
- perceive
- scope
- seesomethingwithyourown eyesidiom
- seeing is believingidiom
- shoot a glance atsomeoneidiom
- spot
- stand oversomeone
- tab
peepverb(APPEAR)
[Iusually+ adv/prep]
toappearslowlyand not becompletelyseen:
A few earlyflowershad peeped up through thesnow.
The cat'stailwas peepingoutfrom under thebed.
Appearing & disappearing
- act
- Bermuda Triangle
- bubble up
- creep
- creep in/creep intosomething
- deliquesce
- disappearance
- dissolve
- filter
- melt away
- mizzle
- pass
- reappear
- reappearance
- rematerialize
- spring
- vanish
- vanish/go up/disappear in a puff of smokeidiom
- vanishing
- wind
peepverb(NOISE)
[I]
to make aweakhighnoise
Animal (non-human) sounds
- baa
- bleat
- buzzy
- caterwauling
- chatter
- cockcrow
- coo
- cry
- hee-haw
- honk
- howling
- miaow
- moo
- peep
- purr
- quack
- squeak
- trill
- trumpet
- warble
Examplesofpeeping
peeping
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
She sat there,peepingat us, seemingly pleased with herself and with our response.
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He, thus, did not appreciate that buzzing with laterally directed wings and 'peeping' are separate behaviour patterns.
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Linda was a little thing, her small pretty facepeepingout of a magenta knit ski-cap that also covered her neck.
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His integrity, however, keptpeepingthrough as he went through his speech.
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This is only justpeepingover the horizon in its true colours.
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I was going to say that timidity comespeepingout at the very end of this document.
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Are we nowpeepinginto the future?
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This is relevant to the issue ofpeepingtoms, and to schools that grow hedges in order to stop people looking at schoolchildren in a state of semi-undress.
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But it is something very exceptional and one can see itpeepingout very strongly in the articles by pilots that have been published in some papers.
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He said what he had to say at great length, with a little more of his undoubted ability as an economistpeepingup over his rising ability as a politician.
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This begins a life of the two of thempeepingon each other.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the case, for instance, withpeepingtoms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The video starts off with an experimental scene, a woman's eyepeepingthrough a key hole.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thankful that the bird is finally gone, the two soon hearpeepingcoming from inside his facial hair, and discover three small baby birds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is heard as a characteristicpeepingsound on a bat detector.
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- management summary
- management-summary
- management system
- management system
- management team
- management-team
- management technique
- management technique
- management theory
- management-theory
- props
- prop something up
- prop sth up
- prop-sth-up
- propulsion
- propulsion system
- propulsion system
- propulsion unit
- propulsion unit
- prop-up
- propylene glycol
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