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View synonyms for peeper

peeper

1

[ pee-per ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that emits or utters a peeping peep sound.
  2. Northeastern U.S. any of several frogs having a peeping peep call, especially the spring peeper.


peeper

2

[ pee-per ]

noun

  1. a person who peeps peep in an abnormally prying manner; a voyeur.
  2. peepers, Slang. the eyes.

peeper

/ ˈpiːpə /

noun

  1. a person who peeps
  2. See eye
    often plural a slang word for eye 1


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Word History and Origins

Origin of peeper1

First recorded in 1585–95; peep 2 + -er 1

Origin of peeper2

First recorded in 1645–55; peep 1 + -er 1

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Example Sentences

A human with a proportionate anatomy would have dinner plate-sized peepers.

The park’s thick and lush hardwood canopy goes full Technicolor in October, attracting thousands of leaf peepers looking for Instagram gold.

Some eye issues ease when we give our peepers a break, but other times the solution is simply a stronger prescription.

The facility is already using its massive peeper to take a close look at sunspots, and its observations may someday lead to better forecasts of space weather.

Humans have long dreamt about looking directly at the Sun, even though it’s extremely dangerous for our peepers.

A farmer going by told him it was only a "spring Peeper," whatever that was, "some kind of a critter in the water."

He had the sore peeper bound up for three or four days before he took it to a hospital.

Ned Ward describes them as figuring, in his time, on the door of “a star-peeper,” in Prescot Street.

He quietly sidled up to the hole where a peeper's nose made a knot on the tent on the inside.

He kept his eyes on the crosshair of the peeper, one hand over the timer button.

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