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Synonyms for peeper


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pee-per
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpi pər

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Définition of peeper

Origin :
  • 1650s, "one who peeps," agent noun from peep (v.1). Slang meaning "eye" is c.1700. From 1590s as "young chicken" and 1857 as "tree frog" (American English), both from peep (v.2).
  • As in private eye : noun private detective
  • As in baby blues : noun postnatal depression
  • As in peeping Tom : noun person secretly watching others
  • As in toad : noun amphibian
  • As in detective : noun investigator of crime
  • As in eye : noun optical organ of an animate being
Example sentences :
  • "You bet I'll keep a peeper on him," he bragged, reaching for his hat.
  • Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
  • You will not have much use of this peeper for a week or ten days to come.
  • Extract from : « Lily Norris' Enemy » by Joanna Mathews
  • Why, I've been longing for years to learn how peeper frogs peep.
  • Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn
  • Mrs. Spafford, a peeper through doors and keyholes, explained the schoolmarm's methods.
  • Extract from : « Bunch Grass » by Horace Annesley Vachell
  • I went back to the peeper screen just as Joey buzzed my signal again.
  • Extract from : « Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • She ran to the window, evidently startling the peeper quite as much as she had been startled herself.
  • Extract from : « Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp » by Annie Roe Carr
  • A farmer going by told him it was only a "spring Peeper," whatever that was, "some kind of a critter in the water."
  • Extract from : « Two Little Savages » by Ernest Thompson Seton
  • But Scott, of course, had even less in common with the peeper and botanizer on maidens' hearts than with the wildest romanticist.
  • Extract from : « Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete » by Sir Walter Scott
  • He kept his eyes on the crosshair of the peeper, one hand over the timer button.
  • Extract from : « Anchorite » by Randall Garrett
  • He quietly sidled up to the hole where a peeper's nose made a knot on the tent on the inside.
  • Extract from : « Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales » by Robert L. Taylor
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