outpeepv.
/ˌaʊtˈpiːp/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈpip/ poetic. Now rare.
intransitive. To peep out.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > peep
beak?c1225
toot?c1225
prya1350
peekc1390
touta1400
keekc1405
peepa1500
outpeep1600
twire1602
teet1710
underpeep1827
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. iii. 94 Yet none of vs dares at these gates out-peepe.
1664 Duchess of Newcastle Excuse in Poems & Fancies p. xiv But when their Young are fledg'd, their heads out peep.
1683 R. Dixon Canidia iv. iii. 14 Lo, a Gale Breathing from the South-west, out peeps.
a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 274 Filth out peeps With Pallid Pannick Fear upon his Cheeks.
1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander xxxiv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 80 Or pearls outpeeping from their silvery shells.
1875 W. B. Scott Poems 141 While here and there a star outpeeps, Cheerily a moment seen.
1885 E. Gosse To Teresa in Firdausi in Exile 207 Like some Sabrina from her weedy grot Outpeeping coyly when the noon is hot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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