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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of peep.

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Examples

  • Changing his mind, he skirted inside the woods for a distance, and again peeped forth.

    War 2010

  • A small head, the color of the dry soil of its home, peeped from a hole.

    CHAPTER XXV 2010

  • A small head, the color of the dry soil of its home, peeped from a hole.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • Then the little bird without a name peeped out, and when he saw Master

    Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

  • And Bessie, the first to wake up, aroused Zara, and then peeped from the door of the cabin.

    The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire 1914

  • Changing his mind, he skirted inside the woods for a distance, and again peeped forth.

    War 1913

  • Then the little bird without a name peeped out, and when he saw Master Owl's two eyes tight shut, he slipped from the hole and flew away.

    Good Stories for Great Holidays 1914

  • Little green points are pushing through the flesh-coloured rinds of the saplings, and, here and there, a soft, crumpled leaf has shyly peeped from a maroon bud.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • Summoned by their chiefs, they came – chosen representatives of all the big tribes – one thousand five hundred strong, each tribe headed by its Bariaktar with the bullet-riven banner, and led by its priest or Franciscan – sons of the Church militant (a revolver peeped from the habit of more than one) – riding or marching in front of their men, and marshalling them with a precision that called forth general admiration.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • Being a Mohammedan, he had numerous wives, who with a number of children peeped from the doors of their apartments; but only one of his wives, quite a girl, the mother of an infant which he nursed with evident pride and many caresses during the whole time we stayed, was brought forward and introduced to us.

    Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

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  • spotted in the article listed at  highkey  peeped seems popular in tweets still.

    May 3, 2017