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Definition: PEEPING |
PEEPINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Peep |
Date "PEEPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Crosswords: PEEPING |
| English words defined with "PEEPING": Godiva ♦ Lady Godiva. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PEEPING": Keyhole ♦ Pamphyle, Peeping Tom of Coventry. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We've become a race of Peeping Toms (Rear Window; writing credit: John Michael Hayes; Cornell Woolrich) Remember last time, when she called about that Peeping Tom -- you know who that was, don't you (The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; writing credit: Nathaniel Benchley; William Rose) | |
Lyrics | You've got me sneaking and peeping (Evil Ways; performing artist: Santana) See your face come peeping through my window (Pictures Of Matchstick Men; performing artist: The Status Quo) I be watching these guys peeping us out (No Matta What (Party All Night); performing artist: Toya) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Keyholes Are for Peeping (1972) Bachelor Tom Peeping (1962) Peeping Tom (1960) Bungling Bill's Peeping Ways (1916) Peeping Pete (1913) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The nuptial-bower; - with the evil-one, peeping at the charms of Eden, from Milton / Js. Gy. inv. & fect. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Peeping Tom. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "PEEPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.69% of the time. "PEEPING" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 76.69% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.54% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.51% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.26% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 133 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "PEEPING": peeping hole ♦ peeping tom ♦ peeping tome. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PEEPING": Peeping-toms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PEEPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përgjues (eavesdropper, listener, listener-in, peeper, spy, watcher). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسترق النظر أو السمع, مختلس النظر. (various references) | |
Chinese | 偷看 (PEEK, Peeped). (various references) | |
German | piepsend (cheeping). (various references) | |
Greek | ματάκιας (peeper, peeping Tom), ηδονοβλεψίασ (peeper, peeping tom, voyeur). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "צצ" (glancing, glimpse, looking). (various references) | |
Italian | guardone (peeping tom, welt). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 透き見 , 覗き , 盗' (taking peeping films). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すきみ (slice of meat or fish), のぞき, とうさつ (insight, taking peeping films). (various references) | |
Korean | 엿봄 (PEEK). (various references) | |
Manx | steetagh (knavish, peep, prying, sneaking), speeikey (descry, descrying, peep, pry, prying, spy), speeikagh, sheegeraght (prying), peeikearys (espionage, inquisitiveness, prying), peeikearagh (curiosity, descrying, nosey, peep, pry, pryer, prying, view, view from concealment, watch), meekeyragh (wink), keekey (peep, snoop, snooping), keekal (peep, snoop, snooping), keekagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eepingpay.(various references) | |
Romanian | om care trage cu ochiul (peeping tome). (various references) | |
Russian | высматривающий (snoopy), выглядывающий. (various references) | |
Spanish | mirón (lurker, onlooker, peeper, peeping tom, rubberneck, voyeur). (various references) | |
Turkish | gözetleme (look out, lookout, observation, observing, peek, spying on, surveillance, watching). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"PEEPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deeping, eeping, eping, jeeping, peeesing, peening, peepings, peming, perping, preping, Pypin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PEEPING" (pronounced pē"ping) |
| 4 | -ē" p i ng | beeping, bleeping, creeping, heaping, keeping, leaping, reaping, safekeeping, seeping, sleeping, sweeping, weeping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-p" | |
-1 letter: peeing, pigpen. | |
-2 letters: genie, genip. | |
-3 letters: gene, gien, neep, peen, peep, pein, pine, ping, pipe. | |
-4 letters: eng, gee, gen, gie, gin, gip, nee, nip, pee, peg, pen, pep, pie, pig, pin, pip. | |
-5 letters: en, in, ne, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-p" | |
+2 letters: peppering. | |
+3 letters: pepsinogen, perpending, perplexing, preempting, preopening, repapering, repeopling, upsweeping. | |
+4 letters: kneecapping, pepsinogens, reappearing, reequipping. | |
+5 letters: apperceiving, apprehending, hedgehopping, kneecappings, newspapering, overpeopling, overstepping, peacekeeping, perpetrating, perpetuating, sidestepping. | |
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