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An' I wants a turly headed doll that ties and suts her eyes when she does to seep, and wears a shash and a pairesol, and anodder bigger dolly to be her mam-ma and pank her when she's naughty, an' I wants an 'ittle fat-iron, an' a cookstove, an' wash-board.

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  1. intransitive verb To pass slowly through small openings or pores; ooze.
  2. intransitive verb To enter, depart, or become diffused gradually.
  3. noun A spot where water or petroleum trickles out of the ground to form a pool.
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  • If we went off at an angle we were liable to run into seep, and we obviously couldn't go north. —  Futures Imperfect
  • 'It is a seep, and yet they allowed their horses to ride into it. —  David A
  • As a child, he had thought the term seep referred to the way tucfra agents oozed through human society like some kind of toxic waste. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • Rick Perry, both Republicans, already have hinted that the national financial meltdown has begun to seep into the state economy, even though Texas so far has weathered it better than most states. —  KSAT.com - Local News
  • The rhythms usually feel like they click all right, sometimes an intriguing half-melodic drone will seep up through the murk, and you can almost grasp the weighty, body-moving funk that rolls along the basslines -- but the further the track goes on, the more you can feel it start to decay under the strain of a limited sonic palette. —  Pitchfork: Latest News
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seep:   seeped ·  seeping
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Alteration of dialectal sipe.

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  1. Also seap, seip; a variant of sipe, q. v.
  2. seep, v.
 

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