Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To glance quickly.
- v. To look or peer furtively, as from a place of concealment.
- v. To be only partially visible, as if peering or emerging from hiding: Tiny crocuses peeked through the snow.
- n. A brief or furtive look.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete or nautical spelling of peak.
- To peep; look pryingly.
- n. A woodpecker.
Wiktionary
- v. To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- v. To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- v. computing, transitive To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. colloq. To look surreptitiously, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
WordNet 3.0
- v. throw a glance at; take a brief look at
- n. a secret look
Etymologies
- From Middle English *peken, piken ("to peep"), probably a fusion of peep and keek. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English piken, perhaps alteration of Middle Dutch kieken, variant of kīken. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The scene in this peek is the Wayne/Drake interaction that I wanted to see before Bruce went … whenever he and Steve Rogers are.”
DC Sneak Peek: Batman: The Widening Gyre #3 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
“Another week, and another sneak peek from the fine people at Archie Comics.”
Archie Comics Sneak Peek of the Week | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
“A little behind the curtain peek at the nitty-gritty parts that went into making the monsters of MK.”
Bleep, Bleep. Bloop, Bloop. Video Games. « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
“For now, I wanted to show you another sneak peek from the Occasions Mini Catalog that goes live on Jan. 5.”
“The sneak peek is now available for freedownload via iTunes!”
“The only part of the video that could possibly be seen as a clue or sneek peek is a very quick look at new cast members Caesar and Ilana played by Saïd Taghmaoui and Zuleikha Robinson at the end of the video.”
“And for the Los Angeles Times, John Horn notes that New Line's strategy of offering Cannes this sneak peek is awfully similar to their tactic in 2001 with the first installment of The Lord of the Rings.”
“For the Los Angeles Times, Glenn F Bunting takes a close look at documents that "provide a rare behind-the-curtain peek at the thousands of expenditures that drain the budget of a major motion picture.”
“One such peek is being offered by ThinkProgress, an impressive site that has obtained a “Confidential Messaging Memo†from Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), to his caucus on how to deal with Iraq.”
“The Trout is usually caught with a worm, or a minnow, which some call a peek, or with a fly, viz. either a natural or an artificial fly: concerning which three, I will give you some observations and directions.”
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peek’.
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I am : looking
To describe facial expressions when attending to something.
look, peer, glance, stare, glare, glower, ogle, peek, observe, scrutinize, gaze, gape and 18 more...
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Here's Looking At You Kid
Synonyms or funny substitutes for the word 'look'.
gaze, glare, saw, penned, peeked, poked, bore, blazed, glance, search, gaped, gawped and 41 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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Stuffie: I'm taken
Stuff you take.
out the trash, mile, break, peek, look, gander, me out to the bal..., up space, time, five, photograph, minute and 39 more...
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eek!
cleek, leek, reek, sleek, eek, cheek, fenugreek, greek, creek, meek, geek, week and 7 more...
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Andre's list
porch, tantrum, temper tantrum, act up, pushchair, fussy eater, laps, sit on a lap, stacking blocks, pull toy, waddle, cranky and 46 more...
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list 4 Kristina 2
demo, motion, symphony, promo, glee, spiraling, abnormal, rhythm, holly, sneak, peek, smash and 3 more...
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week 1
diffident, self-possessed, panelist, thorough, emulate, fancy, witty, swallow, merge, forecast, fringe, executive and 42 more...
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"Look" Verbs
glance, gaze, peek, peep, peer, scan, view, glimpse, gander, watch, snoop, eye and 34 more...
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Triple Homonyms
mete, meat, meet, prize, prise, pries, seas, sees, seize, laze, lays, leis and 48 more...
Tweets
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oroboros Keep in reverse. Jul 22, 2007