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(Pepe,) Peip, v.¹ Also: peep. [e.m.E. and late ME. pepe (c 1403), pyep (1552), peepe (1570), replacing earlier pipen Pipe v.] intr. a. Of music: To sound shrilly. b. Of a person: To whine; to complain querulously. Also quasi-tr. c. Of a bird, mouse or person: To cheep, squeak, chirp.a. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 361.
Proportion sounding dulcest hard I peipb. a1568 Pedder C. 23.
Peipand peurly with peteous granis 1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 145/285.
The doole, the solitairnes uith the pouertie that peipis a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1356.
Sche is not sa pure as she peips, sche hes a mouse to her winter kitching ?a1640 Copie of a Baron's Court (1821) 28.
He's not so poor as he doth peep, indeedc. a1605 Montg. Flyt. .
Polwart, ȝe peip like a mouse amongest thornes a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS. No. 424.
For somthing the pyet peiped