Examples
“Smiling Pool, -- the Hylas, which some people call peepers, -- and eating the carrot which Farmer Brown's boy had left for him.”
“Some game bird breeders even debeak the birds or attach "peepers" or googles to their eyes to keep them attacking each other in the packed pens. (see: caged hen egg operations.)”
Is your state breeding birds for Dick Cheney style hunting like Illinois?
“The Decider also has Iran in his little peepers which is giving many of us the creepers.”
“I knowed ye as soon as I laid my 'peepers' on ye, an 'if I said as it were a foul, why, when a man's in' is cups, d'ye see, 'e's apt to shoot rayther wide o' the gospel, d'ye see, an 'there was no offence, my lord, strike me blind!”
“Sometimes on clear, soft nights, when the moon came out all splendid and the "peepers" sang so plaintively in the Hollow, the boy's heart would fill and grow enormous in his chest with the intolerable sadness he felt.”
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
“peepers," as they are often called because of the peeping noise they make.”
The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young
“Another great planning tool is The Foliage Network, which collects data from an army of volunteer foliage spotters twice a week during the fall, ensuring an up-to-date and very specific report for leaf peepers.”
“Leaf peepers who have been there, done that in the Northeast might want to try a new region: the Rocky Mountains.”
“Before that wet kiss on cold skin, sweetie, don't forget to hold your nose, prise open my peepers, and wait for my first words, after water.”
“But, as moisture and cool temperatures return, leaf peepers will have a beautiful autumn, just a little later than usual.”
The Washington Post: Nature hit snooze button on foliage, just now starting to pop
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peepers’.
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eyes
words for the peepers.
eyes, peepers, heaters, windows to the soul, eyeballs, lenses, pearly whites, visual cortex, retinas, cortex, eye sockets, optic nerve and 3 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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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 351 more...
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Best of weirdnet
buttocks, peeler, mum, sweets, tree, auld, bowery, pynchon, horror-stricken, and, tatou, scarf and 37 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for peepers.
frogapplause Better than big-eared eavesdroppers. May 22, 2009
bilby I knew frogs were chirruping little voyeurs. May 22, 2009
sidheag Also a word for the small tree frogs that gather in ponds and puddles in the spring and then create loud choruses of peeping. May 22, 2009
bilby Percy Pornstar poked a pack of perving _____ Oct 18, 2008
asativum Makes me wonder about all those leaf peepers in New England come autumn. Oct 18, 2008
mollusque Jeepers creepers, Weirdnet! Oct 18, 2008