FromMiddle English*peken,piken,pyken(“to peep”), probably a fusion ofMiddle Englishpepen(“to peep”) andkeken,kiken(“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to ablend ofpeep +keek. Perhaps also possibly ametathetic alteration of Middle Englishkepen,kipen,kypen(“to keep, look, observe, watch”).
peek (third-person singular simple presentpeeks,present participlepeeking,simple past and past participlepeeked)(informal)
- (intransitive)
- Tolookslyly, or with theeyes halfclosed, or through acrevice; topeep.
Close your eyes, and nopeeking!
- To be onlyslightly,partiallyvisible, as ifpeering out from ahiding place.
2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel,Going Down: Oral Sex Stories,→ISBN:A pale strip of white skinpeeked out from under his waistband.
2012, Michelle Monkou,If I Had You,→ISBN:Her brown skinpeeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
- (video games, especially first-person shooters) Tobrieflymove out ofcover (to gathervisualinformation).
Sniper watching the site; don'tpeek.
- (transitive)
- Totake a look at; tocheck out.
Peek my new shoes.
- (computing, dated) Toretrieve (avalue) from amemoryaddress.
- Coordinate term:poke
2006, Gary Willoughby,PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming, page279:We arepeeking the value from the first index's memory location.
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep
- Afrikaans:loer (af)
- Bulgarian:надничам (bg)(nadničam)
- Cherokee:ᎠᎦᏘᎭ(agatiha)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:偷窺 /偷窥(tau1 kwai1),偷睇(tau1 tai2),𥊙(zong1)
- Mandarin:窺視 /窥视 (zh)(kuīshì),偷看 (zh)(tōukàn)
- Dutch:gluren (nl)
- Finnish:kurkistaa (fi)
- French:jeter un coup d'œil (fr)
- Galician:guichar (gl),espreitar (gl),axexar (gl)
- German:lugen (de),(colloquial)gucken (de),(colloquial)linsen (de)
- Hebrew:הציץ (he)(heitsíts)
- Italian:sbirciare (it)
- Japanese:覗く (ja)(のぞく, nozoku)
- Mokilese:wujohr
- Persian:نگاه دزدانه(negâhe dozdâna)
- Portuguese:darumaespiada,espreitar (pt)
- Romanian:trage cu ochiul,arunca o privire
- Russian:(imperfective)загля́дывать (ru)(zagljádyvatʹ),загляну́ть (ru)(zagljanútʹ),(imperfective)подгля́дывать (ru)(podgljádyvatʹ)
- Spanish:entrever (es),pishpar(Argentina),pispar (es)(South America),atisbar (es),echar un vistazo
- Swedish:kika (sv),slänga ett öga,glutta (sv),tjuvkika (sv)
- Turkish:dikizlemek (tr),göz atmak (tr)
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To be only slightly, partially visible
computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address
peek (pluralpeeks)
- A quickglance orlook.
peek
- Misspelling ofpique.
peek
- ergativeplural ofpe
FromProto-Hlai*pʰaːk(“high”), from Pre-Hlai*paːk (Norquest, 2015).
peek
- high
