Keek

//kiːk// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A look, especially a quick one; a peek. Scotland

    ""And now let's take another keek at the red-coats," says Alan, and he led me to the north-eastern fringe of the wood."

  2. 2
    Clipping of Keekwulee. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Verb
  1. 1
    To peek; peep. Scotland, intransitive

    "She was laid in my arms. Not able to sit up, I just keeked at her beautiful facie."

Synonyms

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keekwuleepeep

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"She was laid in my arms. Not able to sit up, I just keeked at her beautiful facie."

Etymology

From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”). Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kucken, gucken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick. The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.

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