单词 | outpeep |
释义 | outpeepv. poetic. Now rare. intransitive. To peep out. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > peep beak?c1225 toot?c1225 prya1350 peekc1390 touta1400 keekc1405 peepa1500 outpeep1600 twire1602 teet1710 underpeep1827 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. iii. 94 Yet none of vs dares at these gates out-peepe. 1664 Duchess of Newcastle Excuse in Poems & Fancies p. xiv But when their Young are fledg'd, their heads out peep. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia iv. iii. 14 Lo, a Gale Breathing from the South-west, out peeps. a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 274 Filth out peeps With Pallid Pannick Fear upon his Cheeks. 1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander xxxiv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 80 Or pearls outpeeping from their silvery shells. 1875 W. B. Scott Poems 141 While here and there a star outpeeps, Cheerily a moment seen. 1885 E. Gosse To Teresa in Firdausi in Exile 207 Like some Sabrina from her weedy grot Outpeeping coyly when the noon is hot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1600 |
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