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Added 8 October 2026

peek

/piːk/ verb

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To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Close your eyes, and no peeking!
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Close your eyes, and no peeking!
To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.

noun

A quick glance or look.

noun

Misspelling of pique.

Origin

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”).

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