pleep
/pliːp/(also plip)
noun
Scottish (chiefly Orkney and Shetland ). A shrill piping cry, especially that of a wading bird; the weak peeping cry of a young bird.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Charles Swainson (fl. 1885), folklorist. Imitative.
- thew
- the Wain
- the Wall
- the Wallabies
- the watches of the night
- the water of life
- the way of the Cross
- the way of the world
- the weaker sex
- the weakest link
- the Web
- thewed
- the weight of the world
- the West
- the wheel of Fortune
- the whip hand
- the whole ball of wax
- the whole enchilada
- the whole nine yards
- the whole schmear
- the whole shooting match
- the Whore of Babylon
- the windows of the soul
- the wish is father to the thought
- the witching hour