peek

See also: Peek, PEEK, and peek’

English

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.

peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

(informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
(informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- 2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories, →ISBN:
  A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
- 2012, Michelle Monkou, If I Had You, →ISBN:
  Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
(computing, transitive, dated) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
Coordinate term: poke
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming, page 279:
  We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.

To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep

Afrikaans: loer
Bulgarian: надничам (bg) (nadničam)
Cherokee: ᎠᎦᏘᎭ (agatiha)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 偷窺／偷窥 (tau¹ kwai¹), 偷睇 (tau¹ tai²), 𥊙 (zong¹)

Mandarin: 窺視／窥视 (zh) (kuīshì), 偷看 (zh) (tōukàn)
Dutch: gluren (nl)
Finnish: kurkistaa (fi)
French: jeter un coup d’œil (fr)
Galician: guichar (gl), espreitar (gl), axexar (gl)
German: lugen (de), (colloquial) gucken (de), (colloquial) linsen (de)
Italian: sbirciare (it)
Japanese: 覗く (ja) (のぞく, nozoku)
Mokilese: wujohr
Persian: نگاه دزدانه (negâhe dozdâna)
Portuguese: dar uma espiada, espreitar (pt)
Romanian: trage cu ochiul, arunca o privire
Russian: (imperfective) загля́дывать (ru) (zagljádyvatʹ), загляну́ть (ru) (zagljanútʹ), (imperfective) подгля́дывать (ru) (podgljádyvatʹ)
Spanish: entrever (es), pishpar (Argentina), pispar (es) (South America), atisbar (es)
Swedish: kika (sv), slänga ett öga, glutta (sv), tjuvkika (sv)
Turkish: dikizlemek (tr), göz atmak (tr)

To be only slightly, partially visible

computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address

peek (plural peeks)

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From Proto-Hlai *pʰaːk (“high”), from Pre-Hlai *paːk (Norquest, 2015).

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