Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

Jump to content
WiktionaryThe Free Dictionary
Search

peeper

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Frompeep +‎-er.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

peeper (pluralpeepers)

  1. (colloquial, chiefly in theplural) Theeye.
    Check out the gorgeouspeepers on that guy!
    • 1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer),Jeepers Creepers
      Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get thempeepers?
      Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?
    • 1963,J P Donleavy,A Singular Man, published1963 (USA), page36:
      The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my ownpeepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.
  2. Someone whopeeps; aspy.
    • 1604 (first performance),Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e.,John Webster],West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published1607,→OCLC,(please specify the page):
      Who's there?peepers, intelligencers, eavesdroppers?
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu,The House by the Churchyard:
      If listeners seldom hear good of themselves, it is also true thatpeepers sometimes see more than they like; and Betty, the cook, as she reached the landing, glancing askance with ominous curiosity, beheld a spectacle, the sight of which nearly bereft her of her senses.
  3. (dated, slang, derogatory) A private detective.
    • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman,The Big Sleep (screenplay)
      So you go to see thispeeper, this Marlowe. That was your mistake.
  4. Apeeping tom.
  5. Ananimal, such as somefrogs, having ashrill,high-pitchedcall.
  6. (colloquial) Achicken just breaking the shell; a youngbird.

Derived terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]
eye (colloquial)

See also

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=peeper&oldid=89332745"
Categories:
Hidden categories:
[8]ページ先頭
©2009-2026 Movatter.jp