Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A quick glance or look.
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. · To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. · To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information). · To take a look at; to check out.
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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