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peek

Pronunciation: /piːk/

The English word “peek” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
  2. To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
  3. To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
  4. To take a look at; to check out.
  5. To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

noun

  1. A quick glance or look.

Etymology

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of Middle English kepen, kipen, kypen (“to keep, look, observe, watch”).

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