"wink-a-peep" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wink-a-peeps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wink-a-peep (plural wink-a-peeps)
  1. (dialect, colloquial) An eye. Tags: colloquial, dialectal
    Sense id: en-wink-a-peep-en-noun-QVBYOg3x
  2. A plant, the scarlet pimpernel. Categories (lifeform): Primrose family plants
    Sense id: en-wink-a-peep-en-noun-jYYi7OTm Disambiguation of Primrose family plants: 4 96 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 99 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 98 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 2 98

Inflected forms

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