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▪ I. ˈpeeping, vbl. n.1
[f. peep v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of peep v.1; cheeping.
c1403[see peep v.1]. 1552Huloet, Pipynge or piepynge of byrdes or fowles. 1709W. Derham in Phil. Trans. XXVI. 491 The Peeping of Chickens in the Egg,..I have my self divers times heard that. 1863T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 71 No sound but the peeping of the frogs in a marsh. 1868A. K. H. Boyd Less. Mid. Age 353 The feeble peeping of two weak..voices singing a long duet.
▪ II. ˈpeeping, vbl. n.2
[f. peep v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of peep v.2: looking through a narrow opening, peering, prying; emergence into view.
1593Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 185 If at the first peeping out of the shell, a young Student sets not a graue face on it..he is cast of and discouraged. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1089 Why pryst thou through my window? leave thy peeping. 1653Walton Angler xvi. 210 In a morning up we rise Ere Auroras peeping. 1826Scott Woodst. v, No one has paid for peeping since Tom of Coventry's days.
attrib.1692R. L'Estrange Fables civ. 98 The Fox spy'd him..through a Peeping Hole. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 8. 49 A next Room, into which there were the peeping Holes frequent in Taverns. 1880Browning Muléykeh 65, I have found me a peeping-place.
▪ III. ˈpeeping, ppl. a.1
[f. peep v.1 + -ing2.]
That peeps or cheeps; cheeping.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 76 The Robine small, and peeping Wren. 1614Sylvester Bethulia's Resc. ii. 455 The peeping chicken. 1643Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xiv. §147 Young chicks, callow and unfledged..called peeping chicks. 1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. I. 107 The Meadow-Pipit..uttering a ‘peep’-ing note.
▪ IV. ˈpeeping, ppl. a.2
[f. peep v.2 + -ing2.]
That peeps or peers; that peeps forth or emerges slightly into view; † (slang) drowsy, nodding, ‘winking’. peeping Tom: see quot. 1837; hence allusively. Now usu. applied to a prying person, esp. with connotations of prurience; one who obtains gratification from furtively observing women not fully clothed or the sexual activity of others; = voyeur. Also transf., fig., and attrib. Hence peeping Tommery, the activity of a peeping Tom; also peeping Tom-ism.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 13 Putting foorth a little cressant, or a peeping mollet. c1617Middleton Witch v. ii, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Peeping, Drowsy, Sleepy. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 34 The first peeping red Buds and Leaves. 1784Cowper Tirocin. 235 Ere he yet begin To show the peeping down upon his chin. 1796Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Peeping Tom, a nick name for a curious prying fellow. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 118/1 The story [of Godiva] is embellished with the incident of Peeping Tom, a prying inquisitive tailor, who was struck blind for popping out his head as the lady passed. 1884Sat. Rev. 14 June 779/2 A mossy recess surrounded by peeping flowers. 1915R. Frost Let. 11 Nov. (1964) 17 She executes a frightfulness. Somewhere else she brings in the Peeping-Tom idea. 1926G. Hunting Vicarion ii. 38 What sort was a man who did not instinctively respect the privacy of others?—not mere physical privacy, on which any Peeping Tom might intrude, but the infinitely more intimate thing, to spy upon which was violation. 1933Week-End Rev. 8 July 34/2, I can assure you that neither reporters nor sub-editors find satisfaction in playing the rô le of Paul Pry or Nosey Parker or Peeping Tom. 1955Sun (Baltimore) 7 Nov. 30/7 The House Judiciary Committee is sending its general counsel here from Washington today to attend the City Council hearing on a bill to outlaw electronic ‘peeping toms’. 1958Times 12 Nov. 3/4 The curiously prosaic bizarreries of Magritte, and the peeping-Tom eroticism of such basically crude pictures as those of Labisse and Delvaux, are of the ‘photographic’ kind. 1960Spectator 21 Oct. 602/3 Those semi-nude gambols [in a cinema film]..break any feeling of reality second by second by giving one a sense of peeping-tommery. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 67 Exhibitionism and the associated disorder Voyeurism (peeping-tom) involve sexual pleasure obtained respectively from displaying the naked body..or from observing the sexual acts or organs of other people. 1966Auden About House 42 Peeping Toms Are never praised, like novelists or bird watchers, For their keenness of observation. 1966Guardian 26 Mar. 1/6 They've had Peeping Tom cameras and now they've got eavesdropping microphones. 1972W. P. McGivern Caprifoil i. 9 Surveillance was a constantly expanding and proliferating industry... He did have a professional view of this constantly expanding peeping Tom-ism, and it was a sour one. 1974M. Kelly That Girl in Alley vii. 120 To avoid bringing myself into suspicion of peeping-tommery I moved a few steps down the yard, out of sight of the drilling class. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 38 At various times during the preceding year, there had been complaints of Peeping Toms. |
