peeping
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]peeping (plural peepings)
- The action of the verb to peep.
- 1852, William Gilmore Simms, The Sword and the Distaff, page 205:
- You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; […]
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 217:
- Yet, terrible as was the danger we incurred, the attraction of peeping was for both of us irresistible.
Verb
[edit]peeping
- present participle and gerund of peep
