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"sense": "quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird",
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"roman": "pisk",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird",
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]
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"text": "I don't want to hear a peep out of you!"
}
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"feminine"
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"sense": "feeble utterance or complaint",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"ref": "2001, Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 177 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001",
"text": "\"Peep, peep,\" said Edward, \"I'm ready.\"\n\"Peep, peep, peep,\" said Henry, \"so am I.\"",
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"The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill."
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"A sandpiper or other small wader."
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],
[
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"(birdwatching, colloquial) A sandpiper or other small wader."
],
"tags": [
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],
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"biology",
"birdwatching",
"natural-sciences",
"ornithology"
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"ipa": "/piːp/",
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{
"ipa": "/pip/",
"tags": [
"US"
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},
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},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "make a noise like a baby bird",
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "make a noise like a baby bird",
"word": "cinguettare"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"sense": "make a noise like a baby bird",
"word": "pīpō"
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"word": "piper"
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{
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"word": "пища́ть"
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"text": "The man peeped through the small hole.",
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"ref": "1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax",
"text": "But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.",
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"(intransitive) To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed."
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{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "tau¹ tai²",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "偷睇"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zong¹",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "𥊙"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tōukàn",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "偷看"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "nakouknout"
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{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "piepen"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "vilkuilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "vilkaista"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "épier"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "regarder furtivement"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "lugen"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to look",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "linsen"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to look",
"tags": [
"regional"
],
"word": "illern"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "kukucskál"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "spuntare"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "sbirciare"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "pīnono"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "titte"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "espreitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "espiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podgljádyvatʹ",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "подгля́дывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zagljádyvatʹ",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "загля́дывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "keek"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "caog"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "husmear"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "espiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "kika"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 28 23 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to look",
"word": "tjuvkika"
}
]
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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