underpeepv.
1. transitive. To peep under.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. ii. 20 The Flame o' th' Taper Bowes toward her, and would vnder-peepe her lids To see th' inclosed Lights. View more context for this quotation
2. intransitive. To peep from under.
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1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander lxi, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 89 Yet you might gaze twice Ere Death it seem'd, and not his cousin, Sleep, That through those creviced lids did underpeep.
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