Meanings
keek1
present singular third person keeks · participle present keeking · participle past keeked · past keeked
plural keeks
- ScotlandA look, especially a quick one; a peek.
"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.
1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter XVIIII, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC
Keek2
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*kīkaną“to look”
- Proto-West Germanic*kīkan
- Old Saxon*kīkan“to look”
- Middle Low Germankîken“to look, peep”
- Middle Dutchkiken
- Middle Englishkyken
- Englishkeek
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 kieken (“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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