peeper : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: peeper	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for peeper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peeper n a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others Synonym(s): voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper an informal term referring to the eye an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas}, {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family {Tringid[91]}. Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also {brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ({T. alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({T. maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({T. canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites subruficollis}), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis, [or] Tringoides, hypoleucus}), called also {fiddler}, {peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet}, and {summer snipe}. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. {Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}. {Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peeper \Peep"er\, n. 1. A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird. 2. One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. Who's there? peepers, . . . eavesdroppers? --J. Webster. 3. The eye; as, to close the peepers. [Colloq.]