peep

• n. のぞき見る；ぼんやりと見る、ちらっと見る
• vi.覗き見する；ゆっくりと明らかにする；現れる；キーキー鳴く
• vt.出現させる
• n. （のぞき見する）人の名前；（アイシャ）のぞき見する

中英語のpepenから。pikenのスペル変化で、語源的にはpeekと同じ。

peep (v.1)

"glance" (especially through a small opening), mid-15c., perhaps alteration of Middle English piken (see peek (v.)). Peeping Tom "a curious prying fellow" [Grose] is from 1796 (see Godiva).

peep (v.2)

"make a short chirp," c. 1400, probably altered from pipen (mid-13c.), ultimately imitative (compare Latin pipare, French pepier, German piepen, Lithuanian pypti, Czech pipati, Greek pipos).

peep (n.2)

"short chirp," early 15c., from peep (v.2); meaning "slightest sound or utterance" (usually in a negative context) is attested from 1903. Meaning "young chicken" is from 1680s. The marshmallow peeps confection are said to date from 1950s.

peep (n.1)

1520s, first in sense found in peep of day, from peep (v.1); meaning "a furtive glance" is first recorded 1730.

1. 「Fourteen minutes，"Chris said，taking a peep at his watch.

」14分、クリスは彼の時計をちらりと見て言った。

2.Children came to peep at him round the doorway.

子供たちが玄関を囲んで彼を覗いている。

3.You don 't hear a peep from her once she 's gone to bed.

彼女は寝ると、少しも動きません。

4.I took a peep through the keyhole.

鍵穴からちらっと覗いてみた.

5.He never dared peep again.

彼は二度と声を出すことができなくなった。