outpeep

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Verb

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outpeep (third-person singular simple present outpeeps, present participle outpeeping, simple past and past participle outpeeped)

  1. (archaic, poetic, intransitive) To peep out.

Noun

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outpeep (plural outpeeps)

  1. (archaic, poetic) A peeping or glancing outward.
    • 1830, Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, volumes 10-12, page 820:
      A blithe lass was she on the first day of the new year, but a blithe lass was she ten days thereafter, as, at the first outpeep of the grey wintry dawn, she stole from her sleepless pillow to take a last virgin look of her father's garden []

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