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Word entry · 4 letters

peek

Best crossword clue

"Quick secret look"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /piːk/Part of speech noun, verbSorted eekpStarts with PEnds with K1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A quick or secret look.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • Close your eyes, and no peeking!
  • A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
  • Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.

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