peepe

Noun (1)

peep (plural peeps)

1. A feeble utterance or complaint.
   • I don't want to hear a peep out of you!
2. (collective) A brood of chicks (young chickens).
   • Two big canopy beds packed with kilims and cushions in the corner of the hut are lit warmly in the glow of the paraffin lanterns as a peep of chicks run inside, quite bravely I think, since their elder relative just got the chop.2025, Roxana Shirazi, Dead Iranian Girl, Rare Bird Books
3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
   • With a "peep" from a high-pitched whistle, the train would leave by the crossover to the down line, […].1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 168
4. (colloquial) A sandpiper or other small wader.
   • When I spotted two small warm-brown scaley-plumaged ‘peeps’ with yellow legs, my commentary immediately identified them as Least Sandpipers.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 91

Noun (2)

peep (plural peeps)

1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
   • So saying she loosened some ivory screws of the guitar, so as to open a peep lengthwise through its interior.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
   • the peep of day

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