peep

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  1. intransitive verb To utter short, soft, high-pitched sounds, like those of a baby bird; cheep.
  2. intransitive verb To speak in a hesitant, thin, high-pitched voice.
  3. noun A short, soft, high-pitched sound or utterance, like that of a baby bird.
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  • Peep-peep-peep, and in went the first of his money. —  A Demon In My View
  • So thoroughly had Blair destroyed Labour as a movement ­independent of its place in power that hardly a peep has been heard from what is supposedly a party of the left. —  BrothersJudd Blog
  • Not a peep was allowed from an epic grassroots No Nukes movement that has sustained itself nonstop (and nonviolently) since long before TMI melted, and is as strong as ever. —  t r u t h o u t
  • I didn't hear a peep from the American Vegetarian Association or the HSUS's Wayne Pacelle. —  CattleNetwork
  • Nary a peep has been heard in the American / Western media about Israel's state-sponsored vandalism against religious structures. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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peek ·  glimpse

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peep:   peeping
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English *pepen, probably alteration of pipen, from Old English pīpian, to pipe, from pīpe, tube, musical instrument, and from Latin pīpāre, to peep; see pipe.
  2. Middle English pepen, perhaps alteration of piken, to peek; see peek.

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  1. Also pip, pipe (see pipe), from Middle English *pepen, pipen, from Old French pipier, pepier, French pépier = Spanish pipiar = Old Italian *pipiare = Dutch piepen = Middle Low German pipen, Low German piepen = German piepen, piepsen = Danish pippe, from Latin pipiare, pipare, pipire, also pipilare (later Italian pipilare) = Greek πιππίζειν, peep, chirp, as a bird; an imitative word, and as such more or less varied in form: see pipe. Cf.peep.
  2. = German piep, pip = Danish pip, peep; from the verb.
  3. Prob. a particular use of peep, chirp, with reference to a concealed fowler, who, ‘peeping’ or chirping to beguile the birds, ‘peeps’ or peers out to watch them. Cf. Old French piper, peep, la pipe du jour, the peep of day (“day-pipe”—Palsgrave). Less prob. there is ref. to the fancied ‘peeping’ or peering out of a ‘peeping’ or chirping chick. See pipe v.
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