peep是什么意思（peep的用法）

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一、peep是什么意思

1、peep 偷窥，偷看

2、来自中古英语pepen,来自piken拼写变体，词源同peek.

二、peep的用法

1、peep (v.1)

2、"glance" (especially through a small opening), mid-15c., perhaps alteration of Middle English piken (see peek (v.)). Peeping Tom "a curious prying fellow" [Grose] is from 1796 (see Godiva).

3、peep (v.2)

4、"make a short chirp," c. 1400, probably altered from pipen (mid-13c.), ultimately imitative (compare Latin pipare, French pepier, German piepen, Lithuanian pypti, Czech pipati, Greek pipos).

5、peep (n.2)

6、"short chirp," early 15c., from peep (v.2); meaning "slightest sound or utterance" (usually in a negative context) is attested from 1903. Meaning "young chicken" is from 1680s. The marshmallow peeps confection are said to date from 1950s.

7、peep (n.1)

8、1520s, first in sense found in peep of day, from peep (v.1); meaning "a furtive glance" is first recorded 1730.

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