peek
Plural: peeks
Noun
- a secret look
- A quick glance or look.
- Misspelling of pique.
Verb
Verb Forms: peeked, peeking, peeks
- To look quickly or furtively, often through a small opening.
- throw a glance at; take a brief look at
- "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
- To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
Examples
- He tried to PEEK at his opponent’s tiles, but the rules of Scrabble forbid it.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek.
Scrabble Score: 10
peek: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpeek: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
peek: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
peek: valid Words With Friends Word