Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A creature that makes short, high-pitched sounds, especially a frog.
- n. One who peeks furtively.
- n. Slang An eye.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Some little creature which peeps, pipes, or chirps. A newly hatched chick.
- n. An egg-pie.
- n. One who peeps; a spying or inquisitive person.
- n. The eye.
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial The eye.
- n. Someone who peeps; a spy.
- n. An animal, such as some frogs, that have a shrill, high-pitched call.
- n. dated, slang, derogatory A private detective.
- n. colloquial A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.
- n. One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.
- n. colloq. The eye.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
- n. a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
- n. an informal term referring to the eye
Etymologies
- peep + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And his wits must have followed his 'peeper' -- not so;”
In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences
“Boys, if you're reading this, just an FYI, whipping out your "peeper" is not proper first-date etiquette.”
“(That was a schoolboy, unaware that Esper Proctors were hired by Examination Boards to prevent that kind of peeper-cheating) Read minds and know what people really think of me ...”
“A holiday that consists of A LOT of chocolate, and jelly beans and little marshmallow "peeper" things.”
“For example, the little cricket frog or "peeper" has been seen many times in mid-winter alongside the banks of flowing streams, and during the open winter of 1888 – 89 numerous specimens of leopard and green frogs were seen on different occasions in December and January, while on February 18th they, together with the "peepers," were in full chorus.”
“From peeper scopes to duct tape -- learn more about the cool tools Nature Conservancy scientists use to solve conservation issues.”
“P. S dont trust peeper spray because some where the wind is allways going to blow in the wrong direction.”
“The next few seconds seemed as if they happened in slow motion, as I turned to see him reach for his zipper and whip out his little "peeper.”
The Huffington Post: Gena Grish: First Date: Too Fast, Too Furious
“ESPN should get $327,000 in restitution payments from Erin Andrews peeper Michael David Barrett -- more than four times what the court recommended he pay to the courtside reporter and current "Dancing With the Stars" contender.”
The Huffington Post: ESPN Should Get $327K From Erin Andrews Stalker: Government
“Hasselbeck had said on "The View" that the peeper just should have waited to see her scantily clad on "Dancing With the Stars.”
The Washington Post: Howard Kurtz explores how oil spill, bombing news trumped Nashville flood
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peeper’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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New Grims
Grim __________.
Cousins of the Grim Reaper.
Two-syllable words that begin with Re (not necessarily as a prefix) and end with R. Also, two-syllable words that rhyme with r...repair, refer, reader, renter, reeker, reacher, sleeper, keeper, beeper, creeper, reaver, rester and 10 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2031 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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Nana Words
My Nana, that is.
piazza, warsh, slim, listen here, dickens, chrisapoo, mine, young man, young lady, waste paper basket, behave, parlor and 15 more...
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A Testicle by Any Other Name...
Please note these aren't all *strictly* testicle terms, but include other... uh... nearby parts.
Suggestions welcome.
Also, an interesting quote can be found here, and another on...stones, nuts, plums, sack, dingles, dangly-bits, ellipsoid glandul..., pinheads, junk, seeds, kernels, jewels and 77 more...
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Snoop
Private dicks.
sherlock, sleuth, hawkshaw, investigator, gumshoe, inquirer, shamus, skip tracer, eye, private eye, private detective, private investigator and 28 more...
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Unknown lovely words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for peeper.
bilby Pepe Paparazzi poked a pack of pesky peepers. Oct 9, 2008
abraxaszugzwang c_b, it is creepier that way! And I've heard it many times. Don't pout! Quick, delete your comment before anyone else can see! Feb 19, 2007
chained_bear Well, the song's much older. I had no idea it was a movie, and don't much care either way. The point was the creepiness of the lyric if one considers the alternate meaning that AZ has listed here for the word "peeper."
Jeez, now that I said it that way, this page is no fun anymore. *pouts* Feb 19, 2007
seanahan I don't think I'd ever heard the song until I saw the movie. Now the two are associated in my head. Feb 18, 2007
abraxaszugzwang Jeepers Creepers was a movie. Terrible indeed. Feb 18, 2007
reesetee That was a movie? I immediately thought of the song. Feb 18, 2007
seanahan That was a terrible movie. Feb 18, 2007
chained_bear "Jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those peepers?!" Feb 18, 2007
reesetee You know, chained_bear has a whole list of these words. And she's a girl, too. ;-) Feb 16, 2007
abraxaszugzwang My Nana's word for a boy's . . . peeper. Feb 16, 2007