Peep

[piːp] or [pip]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) appear as though from hiding; 'the new moon peeped through the tree tops'.

(verb.) speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice.

(verb.) make high-pitched sounds; 'the birds were chirping in the bushes'.

(verb.) cause to appear; 'he peeped his head through the window'.

(verb.) look furtively; 'He peeped at the woman through the window' .

格拉迪斯校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.

(v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

(v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.

(n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

(n.) First outlook or appearance.

(n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.

(n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).

(n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

欧文校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Chirp (as a chicken), pule, pip.[2]. Peer, look slyly.

手打:特雷弗

解釋/意思:

v.i. to look through a narrow opening: to look out from concealment: to look slyly or cautiously: to begin to appear.—n. a sly look: a beginning to appear a glimpse: a narrow view a slit.—ns. Peep′er one that peeps: a prying person: a chicken just breaking the shell: (slang) the eye; Peep′-hole a hole through which one may look without being seen; Peep′-o'-day the first appearance of light in the morning; Peep′-show a small show viewed through a small hole usually fitted with a magnifying-glass; Peep′-sight a plate on the breach with a small hole through which a gunner takes his sight.—Peeping Tom a prying fellow esp. one who peeps in at windows; Peep-o'-day boys a band of Protestants in the north of Ireland in the end of the 18th century—opposed to the Catholic Defenders.

v.i. to chirp or cry as a chicken.—n. the cry of a young chicken.

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