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peek

verb
/piːk/

Etymology

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of Middle English kepen, kipen, kypen (“to keep, look, observe, watch”).

  1. derived from pepen — “to peep”
  2. inherited from *peken✻

Definitions

  1. To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice

    To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

    • Close your eyes, and no peeking!

  2. To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.

    • A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
    • Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.

  3. To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).

    • Sniper watching the site; don't peek.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. To take a look at

      To take a look at; to check out.

      • Peek my new shoes.

    2. To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

      • We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.

    3. A quick glance or look.

    4. Misspelling of pique.

    5. Acronym of polyetheretherketone.

    6. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for peek. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA