peepingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpipɪŋ/

Forms: late Middle English peping, 1500s peiping (Scottish), 1500s piepynge, 1600s– peeping.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep n.², -ing suffix¹; peep v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Probably originally < peep n.² + -ing suffix¹ (although this is first attested earlier than the noun); in later use also < peep v.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier piping n.¹

1. The repeated utterance of a high-pitched sound or peep; a shrill cheeping, chirping, or squeaking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > squeak

peep?a1500

peeping1552

squeak1700

a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) 180 (MED) Some þer were, as maydens ȝung of age, That pleined sore with peping [v.r. piping] & with rage.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pipynge or piepynge of byrdes or fowles.

a1585 P. Hume in Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 807 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 186 Thy cheiping and peiping, with weiping þow sall rew.

1615 S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 28 The Birds betake them all to peeping, It would haue made you fall a weeping.

1710 W. Derham in Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 491 The Peeping of Chickens in the Egg,..I have my self divers times heard that.

1863 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 71 No sound but the peeping of the frogs in a marsh.

1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 353 The feeble peeping of two weak..voices singing a long duet.

1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) v. 59 There was always a peeping of chicks.

2003 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 28 Feb. 5 The computer..was sitting happily checking for viruses with a pleasant little hum, definitely no loud peeping.

2. slang. The action of informing on someone; the betrayal of incriminating information to the police. rare. Cf. peep v.² 3.

ΚΠ

1911 J. London Let. 6 Mar. (1966) 340 I have known ex-cons who became dead for peeping.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

peepingn.²

Brit.

/ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpipɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < peep v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.With peeping hole n. at Compounds 2 compare earlier peephole n.

The action of looking at something through a narrow opening, or from a place of concealment, esp. in a voyeuristic way. Also: gradual or partial emergence into view (now with out, up, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > impertinent curiosity, prying > action of prying

prying1547

peeping1593

Paul-Prying1880

prodnosing1958

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible

appearingc1375

showinga1387

appearancec1400

peeping1593

appear?1610

apparition1652

outcropping1836

epiphany1859

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 62^v If at the first peeping out of the shell, a young Student sets not a graue face on it..he is cast of and discouraged.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H3 Why pry'st thou throgh my window? leaue thy peeping .

a1625 J. Fletcher Chances i. vi. 3/1 in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa2 This comes of peeping.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 210 In a morning up we rise Ere Aurora's peeping .

1706 J. Evelyn Silva (ed. 4) i. vi. 56 At the first peeping out of the Winter Concleave.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 93 After some time spent in peeping, grinning, and chattering, he [sc. a monkey] at last espyed me.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. v. 141 No one has paid for peeping since Tom of Coventry's days.

1894 A. Lang Cock Lane 212 The practice of ‘scrying’, ‘peeping’, or ‘crystal-gazing’ has been revived in recent years.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. iv. 69 She believed she could endure..the nauseating smugness, the constant prying and peeping.

1996 Daily News (New Plymouth) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 27 I lost an early..planting of potatoes this winter by a hard frost which nipped the first peeping up of the haulms.

2002 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 30 Aug. a6 A Florida judge accused of peeping, trespassing and prowling while drunk..pleaded no contest yesterday to a lesser charge of public intoxication.

Compounds

C1.

peeping place n.

ΚΠ

1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. v. i. 46 Go you to your peeping-place, and you shall see such a Scene.

1880 R. Browning Muléykeh 65 I have found me a peeping-place.

2003 Washington Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. c1 (What makes it such a prime peeping place is) the way the hotel is shaped.

C2.

peeping hole n. a peephole.

ΚΠ

1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iii. sig. G3^v The tother [house] has peeping holes within doores.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 8. 49 A next Room, into which there were the peeping Holes frequent in Taverns.

1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 39/2 We placed ourselves at squints, or peeping-holes, formed by thrusting short sticks through the reed fence.

2002 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 13 The ladies claim that peeping holes were drilled in locker-room doors.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

peepingadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpipɪŋ/

Forms: see peep v.¹ and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep v.¹, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < peep v.¹ + -ing suffix².

1. That peeps (in various senses of peep v.¹); that looks quickly or furtively, esp. from a place of concealment; that begins to appear or emerge; partially in view.Cf. peeping Tom n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > appearing or becoming visible

springing?a1425

pearingc1480

peepinga1547

peering1568

unveiling1611

appearinga1616

disclosing1746

out-peeping1893

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. Fiv^v By her windowes the Quene the peping day Espyed.

1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 13 Putting foorth a little cressant, or a peeping mollet.

a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) v. iii. 2023 Whilst we show Reverence to yond peeping Moone.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. i. 146 The early Morn lets out the peeping day.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Baucis & Philemon in Fables Anc. & Mod (1734) 120 Wondring with peeping Eyes, while they deplore Their Neighbour's Fate, and Country now no more.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 34 The first peeping red Buds and Leaves.

1797 S. Instone Poems 16 Where nought appears to mark the sacred place, Save the fresh Earth, and peeping blades of Grass.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. ix. 152 The white walls of Turkish houses, with small grated openings high up, above all chance of peeping intrusion.

1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 779/2 A mossy recess surrounded by peeping flowers.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iv. 138 They..carried canes flying Princeton pennants, the effect completed by socks and peeping handkerchiefs.

1988 M. Warner Lost Father xxi. 226 She..couldn't help a peeping smile through her eyelashes.

†2. slang. Drowsy, nodding, sleepy. Cf. peepy adj. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective]

winkinga1000

slummy?c1225

anappedc1300

sleepya1325

heavy1382

slumberyc1386

sleepful1398

peisant1484

slumberous1495

drowsy1530

sleepish1530

sleepery1535

slumberinga1538

somnolent1547

heavy-headed1552

drowsy-headed1576

narrow-eyed1607

soporiferous1607

oscitant1625

nodding1631

Morphean1641

dormious1656

somniculous1656

dozed1659

drowsed1667

peeping1673

dozy1693

peepy1699

somniferous1798

noddy1801

dozing1820

head-nodding1832

snory1837

soporific1841

somnolescent1845

swodder1847

adrowse1848

snoozy1877

slumbersome1884

1673 Canting Acad. 43 Peeping, Drowsie, or Sleepy.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Peeping, Drowsy, Sleepy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

peepingadj.²

Brit.

/ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpipɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep v.², -ing suffix².

Etymology: < peep v.² + -ing suffix².

1. That makes a peep; cheeping, squeaking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [adjective] > squeaking

peeping1568

squeakinga1616

1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 29^v The Robine small, and peeping Wren.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Aa4 He found 8. yong peping sparrows in the leaues.

1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue ii. 455 The peeping chicken.

1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xiv. §147 Young chicks, callow and unfledge (..called peeping chicks).

1855 H. W. Beecher Star Papers 287 The front door, wide open in summer, attracted clucking hens and peeping chickens.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 135 He felt among the old bird's feathers and drew out a faintly-peeping chick in his closed hand.

2003 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 12 Jan. t10 There is no rule of the road here, just peeping horns.

2. That speaks in a whining voice; querulous, complaining. Cf. peep v.² 2. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > sharp or harsh

frottinga1387

slittinga1387

rough-mouthed1646

peeping1786

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adjective] > complaining > peevishly or querulously

girning1447

querulousc1475

quarrellous1490

whining15..

wailish?1548

querimonious1604

whinging1720

peeping1786

honing1802

whiny1854

Peter Grievous1875

grizzly1900

bellyaching1931

1786 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Peep Mrs. Jardine did not speak with her usual tone of voice, but with a low peeping voice.

1894 J. Menzies Our Town 136 A peepin', white-faced, onweel looking craiter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1450

n.²1593

adj.¹a1547

adj.²1568

单词	peeping
释义	peepingn.¹ Brit. /ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpipɪŋ/ Forms: late Middle English peping, 1500s peiping (Scottish), 1500s piepynge, 1600s– peeping. Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep n.², -ing suffix¹; peep v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Probably originally < peep n.² + -ing suffix¹ (although this is first attested earlier than the noun); in later use also < peep v.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier piping n.¹ 1. The repeated utterance of a high-pitched sound or peep; a shrill cheeping, chirping, or squeaking. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > squeak peep?a1500 peeping1552 squeak1700 a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) 180 (MED) Some þer were, as maydens ȝung of age, That pleined sore with peping [v.r. piping] & with rage. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pipynge or piepynge of byrdes or fowles. a1585 P. Hume in Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 807 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 186 Thy cheiping and peiping, with weiping þow sall rew. 1615 S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 28 The Birds betake them all to peeping, It would haue made you fall a weeping. 1710 W. Derham in Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 491 The Peeping of Chickens in the Egg,..I have my self divers times heard that. 1863 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 71 No sound but the peeping of the frogs in a marsh. 1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 353 The feeble peeping of two weak..voices singing a long duet. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) v. 59 There was always a peeping of chicks. 2003 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 28 Feb. 5 The computer..was sitting happily checking for viruses with a pleasant little hum, definitely no loud peeping. 2. slang. The action of informing on someone; the betrayal of incriminating information to the police. rare. Cf. peep v.² 3. ΚΠ 1911 J. London Let. 6 Mar. (1966) 340 I have known ex-cons who became dead for peeping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peepingn.² Brit. /ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpipɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < peep v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.With peeping hole n. at Compounds 2 compare earlier peephole n. The action of looking at something through a narrow opening, or from a place of concealment, esp. in a voyeuristic way. Also: gradual or partial emergence into view (now with out, up, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > impertinent curiosity, prying > action of prying prying1547 peeping1593 Paul-Prying1880 prodnosing1958 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible appearingc1375 showinga1387 appearancec1400 peeping1593 appear?1610 apparition1652 outcropping1836 epiphany1859 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 62^v If at the first peeping out of the shell, a young Student sets not a graue face on it..he is cast of and discouraged. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H3 Why pry'st thou throgh my window? leaue thy peeping . View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Chances i. vi. 3/1 in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa2 This comes of peeping. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 210 In a morning up we rise Ere Aurora's peeping . View more context for this quotation 1706 J. Evelyn Silva (ed. 4) i. vi. 56 At the first peeping out of the Winter Concleave. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 93 After some time spent in peeping, grinning, and chattering, he [sc. a monkey] at last espyed me. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. v. 141 No one has paid for peeping since Tom of Coventry's days. 1894 A. Lang Cock Lane 212 The practice of ‘scrying’, ‘peeping’, or ‘crystal-gazing’ has been revived in recent years. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. iv. 69 She believed she could endure..the nauseating smugness, the constant prying and peeping. 1996 Daily News (New Plymouth) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 27 I lost an early..planting of potatoes this winter by a hard frost which nipped the first peeping up of the haulms. 2002 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 30 Aug. a6 A Florida judge accused of peeping, trespassing and prowling while drunk..pleaded no contest yesterday to a lesser charge of public intoxication. Compounds C1. peeping place n. ΚΠ 1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. v. i. 46 Go you to your peeping-place, and you shall see such a Scene. 1880 R. Browning Muléykeh 65 I have found me a peeping-place. 2003 Washington Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. c1 (What makes it such a prime peeping place is) the way the hotel is shaped. C2. peeping hole n. a peephole. ΚΠ 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iii. sig. G3^v The tother [house] has peeping holes within doores. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 8. 49 A next Room, into which there were the peeping Holes frequent in Taverns. 1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 39/2 We placed ourselves at squints, or peeping-holes, formed by thrusting short sticks through the reed fence. 2002 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 13 The ladies claim that peeping holes were drilled in locker-room doors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peepingadj.¹ Brit. /ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpipɪŋ/ Forms: see peep v.¹ and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < peep v.¹ + -ing suffix². 1. That peeps (in various senses of peep v.¹); that looks quickly or furtively, esp. from a place of concealment; that begins to appear or emerge; partially in view.Cf. peeping Tom n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > appearing or becoming visible springing?a1425 pearingc1480 peepinga1547 peering1568 unveiling1611 appearinga1616 disclosing1746 out-peeping1893 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. Fiv^v By her windowes the Quene the peping day Espyed. 1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 13 Putting foorth a little cressant, or a peeping mollet. a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) v. iii. 2023 Whilst we show Reverence to yond peeping Moone. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. i. 146 The early Morn lets out the peeping day. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Baucis & Philemon in Fables Anc. & Mod (1734) 120 Wondring with peeping Eyes, while they deplore Their Neighbour's Fate, and Country now no more. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 34 The first peeping red Buds and Leaves. 1797 S. Instone Poems 16 Where nought appears to mark the sacred place, Save the fresh Earth, and peeping blades of Grass. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. ix. 152 The white walls of Turkish houses, with small grated openings high up, above all chance of peeping intrusion. 1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 779/2 A mossy recess surrounded by peeping flowers. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iv. 138 They..carried canes flying Princeton pennants, the effect completed by socks and peeping handkerchiefs. 1988 M. Warner Lost Father xxi. 226 She..couldn't help a peeping smile through her eyelashes. †2. slang. Drowsy, nodding, sleepy. Cf. peepy adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective] winkinga1000 slummy?c1225 anappedc1300 sleepya1325 heavy1382 slumberyc1386 sleepful1398 peisant1484 slumberous1495 drowsy1530 sleepish1530 sleepery1535 slumberinga1538 somnolent1547 heavy-headed1552 drowsy-headed1576 narrow-eyed1607 soporiferous1607 oscitant1625 nodding1631 Morphean1641 dormious1656 somniculous1656 dozed1659 drowsed1667 peeping1673 dozy1693 peepy1699 somniferous1798 noddy1801 dozing1820 head-nodding1832 snory1837 soporific1841 somnolescent1845 swodder1847 adrowse1848 snoozy1877 slumbersome1884 1673 Canting Acad. 43 Peeping, Drowsie, or Sleepy. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Peeping, Drowsy, Sleepy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peepingadj.² Brit. /ˈpiːpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpipɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peep v.², -ing suffix². Etymology: < peep v.² + -ing suffix². 1. That makes a peep; cheeping, squeaking. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [adjective] > squeaking peeping1568 squeakinga1616 1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 29^v The Robine small, and peeping Wren. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Aa4 He found 8. yong peping sparrows in the leaues. 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue ii. 455 The peeping chicken. 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xiv. §147 Young chicks, callow and unfledge (..called peeping chicks). 1855 H. W. Beecher Star Papers 287 The front door, wide open in summer, attracted clucking hens and peeping chickens. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 135 He felt among the old bird's feathers and drew out a faintly-peeping chick in his closed hand. 2003 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 12 Jan. t10 There is no rule of the road here, just peeping horns. 2. That speaks in a whining voice; querulous, complaining. Cf. peep v.² 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > sharp or harsh frottinga1387 slittinga1387 rough-mouthed1646 peeping1786 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adjective] > complaining > peevishly or querulously girning1447 querulousc1475 quarrellous1490 whining15.. wailish?1548 querimonious1604 whinging1720 peeping1786 honing1802 whiny1854 Peter Grievous1875 grizzly1900 bellyaching1931 1786 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Peep Mrs. Jardine did not speak with her usual tone of voice, but with a low peeping voice. 1894 J. Menzies Our Town 136 A peepin', white-faced, onweel looking craiter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1450n.²1593adj.¹a1547adj.²1568
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peepingn.1

peepingn.2

Compounds

peepingadj.1

peepingadj.2

peepingn.¹

peepingn.²

peepingadj.¹

peepingadj.²