peep

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• Received-Pronunciation: /piːp/
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• US: /pip/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -iːp
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• homophone: Peep
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• homophone: PEEP
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• homophone: peep
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• CMU ARPABET: P IY1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.

From Middle English pepen, variant of piken.

Uncertain; perhaps variant of pip.

Back-formation from peeps, a shortened form of people.

Genericized trademark from the confection brand Peeps.

Genericized trademark from the confection brand Peeps, owned by Just Born, Inc.

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: писукане (pisukane) — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Catalan: piulet — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Czech: pípnutí — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Dutch: gepiep — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Finnish: piipitys — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• French: pépiement — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• German: Pieps — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Italian: cinguettio — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Italian: pigolio — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Italian: squittio — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Malagasy: manarangarana — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Russian: писк (pisk) — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Spanish: pío — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Swedish: pip — quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird
• Czech: pípnutí — feeble utterance or complaint
• Dutch: piep — feeble utterance or complaint
• Finnish: pihaus — feeble utterance or complaint
• Finnish: hiiskaus — feeble utterance or complaint
• German: Pieps — feeble utterance or complaint
• Irish: gíog — feeble utterance or complaint
• Italian: borbottio — feeble utterance or complaint
• Italian: brontolio — feeble utterance or complaint
• Italian: mugugno — feeble utterance or complaint
• Spanish: susurro — feeble utterance or complaint
• Bulgarian: писукам (pisukam) — make a noise like a baby bird
• Czech: pípnout — make a noise like a baby bird
• Dutch: piepen — make a noise like a baby bird
• Esperanto: pepi — make a noise like a baby bird
• Finnish: piipittää — make a noise like a baby bird
• German: piepen — make a noise like a baby bird
• Hungarian: csipog — make a noise like a baby bird
• Italian: cinguettare — make a noise like a baby bird
• Latin: pīpō — make a noise like a baby bird
• Norman: piper — make a noise like a baby bird
• Russian: пища́ть (piščátʹ) — make a noise like a baby bird
• Russian: пи́скнуть (písknutʹ) — make a noise like a baby bird
• Spanish: piar — make a noise like a baby bird
• Swedish: pipa — make a noise like a baby bird
• Czech: pípnout — speak briefly with a quiet voice
• Finnish: kuiskata — speak briefly with a quiet voice
• German: piepsen — speak briefly with a quiet voice
• Spanish: susurrar — speak briefly with a quiet voice
• Bulgarian: надничам (nadničam) — to look
• Chinese Cantonese: 偷睇 (tau1 tai2) — to look
• Chinese Cantonese: 𥊙 (zong1) — to look
• Chinese Mandarin: 偷看 (tōukàn) — to look
• Czech: nakouknout — to look
• Dutch: piepen — to look
• Esperanto: enrigardi — to look
• Finnish: vilkuilla — to look
• Finnish: vilkaista — to look
• French: épier — to look
• French: regarder furtivement — to look
• German: lugen — to look
• German: linsen — to look
• German: illern — to look
• Hungarian: kukucskál — to look
• Italian: spuntare — to look
• Italian: sbirciare — to look
• Māori: pīnono — to look
• Norwegian: titte — to look
• Portuguese: espreitar — to look
• Portuguese: espiar — to look
• Russian: подгля́дывать (podgljádyvatʹ) — to look
• Russian: загля́дывать (zagljádyvatʹ) — to look
• Scots: keek — to look
• Scottish Gaelic: caog — to look
• Spanish: husmear — to look
• Spanish: espiar — to look
• Swedish: kika — to look
• Swedish: tjuvkika — to look
• Esperanto: ekaperi — begin to appear
• Galician: guichar — to look forth from concealment
• German: herausgucken — to look forth from concealment
• German: hervorgucken — to look forth from concealment
• Spanish: pishpar — to look forth from concealment
• Spanish: pispar — to look forth from concealment