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noun

Peeper n.

A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. "Who's there? peepers,... eavesdroppers?"

The eye; as, to close the peepers. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Peeper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Peeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... at her suspiciously. "If he hasn't, it's all right," he said; "but I think as you're one of them as don't complain if you can 'elp it." He opened his hand and showed a great jagged flint which he carried. "I'd ha' knocked his other peeper out with this," he said, ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... and last.—Proser's right peeper badly swollen, the Dullard gory, and a bit groggy, but still smiling. Proser opened with a ricochet, which did great execution, but was countered heavily when he attempted to repeat the trick, the Dullard all but knocking him off his legs with a fifty-pound salmon. After some slight ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892 • Various

... to the window, evidently startling the peeper quite as much as she had been startled herself. The girl, who was about Nan's own age, fell back from the pane, stumbled in the big, men's boots she wore, and ungracefully sprawled in the snow upon her back. She could not get away before Nan ...

— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr

Words linked to "Peeper" : viewer, fauna, animal, witness, voyeur, brute, watcher, peep, beast, optic, creature, colloquialism, looker