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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“peeped” is a form of

peep

UK /piːp/ · US /pip/ noun, verb

Forms peeps peeping peeped

  1. noun (chiefly in the negative) A feeble utterance or complaint. “I don't want to hear a peep out of you!”
  2. noun (collective) A brood of chicks (young chickens).
  3. noun The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. noun (birdwatching, colloquial) A sandpiper or other small wader.
  5. verb To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  6. verb To speak briefly with a quiet voice.
  7. verb (intransitive) To look forth from concealment, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed. “The man peeped through the small hole.”
  8. verb (intransitive, dated) To begin to appear; to make the first appearance.
  9. verb (transitive, slang) To take a look at; check out. “Did you peep that video I sent you?”
  10. verb (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To see, uncover.
  11. noun A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  12. noun The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear. “the peep of day”
  13. noun A peepshow.
  14. noun (obsolete) A spot on a die or domino.
  15. noun (UK, slang) A person.
  16. noun (US) A soft marshmallow confection, shaped into a baby animal for Easter celebration.
  17. noun (slang) A World War II jeep attached to an armored regiment.

Synonyms

keek pip cheep peek chirp chirrup

Etymology

From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.

From Middle English pepen, variant of piken.

Uncertain; perhaps variant of pip.

Back-formation from peeps, a shortened form of people.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
  2. verb To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
  3. noun The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.
  4. noun First outlook or appearance.

Etymology [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. pipen, F. piper, pépier, L. pipire, pipare, pipiare, D. & G. piepen. Senses 2 and 3 perhaps come from a transfer of sense from the sound which chickens make upon the first breaking of the shell to the act accompanying it; or perhaps from the influence of peek, or peak. Cf. Pipe.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “peep”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details