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PeepEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Genericized trademark from the confection brand Peeps, owned by Just Born, Inc.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗peepEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗peepEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English pepen, variant of piken.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗peepEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Uncertain; perhaps variant of pip.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗peepEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Back-formation from peeps, a shortened form of people.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗peepEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Genericized trademark from the confection brand Peeps.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- PeepEnglish · e-38699-2428
Peep, pēp, v.i. to chirp, or cry as a chicken.—n. the cry of a young chicken. [Fr. piper—L. pipāre.]
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Peep, pēp, v.i. to look through a narrow opening: to look out from concealment: to look slyly or cautiously: to begin to appear.—n. a sly look: a beginning to appear, a glimpse: a narrow view, a slit.—ns. Peep′er, one th
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