Difference between Peek and Peep

What is the difference between Peek and Peep?

Peek as a verb is to look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. while Peep as a verb is to make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.

Peek

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. To retrieve the value from (a memory address).

Example sentence: Mork, played by Robin Williams, was my introduction to improv, and my first real peek behind the curtain of television production; I had seen Williams riffing on 'The Tonight Show' and soon put it together that certain scenes with Mork were not scripted.

Peep

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.To speak briefly with a quiet voice.To look, while trying not to be seen or noticed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.A feeble utterance or complaint.A kind of bird; a sandpiper.A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.A spot on a die or domino, also called pip .A confection composed of sugar-coated marshmallow, molded in the shape of a small chick. The most popular examples are dyed yellow, the normal color of a domestic chicken hatchling, from the sound of whose cry the name is presumed to have originated. Various shapes and colors are available. In the US they are especially popular at Easter, and therefore also available in the shape of a baby bunny, which may be colored white but nevertheless sold as a "peep".person.

We hope you now know whether to use Peek or Peep in your sentence.

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