wink-a-peep

noun

An eye.

Meanings

nounwink-a-peep (plural wink-a-peeps)

plural wink-a-peeps

  1. colloquialdialectalAn eye.
  2. A plant, the scarlet pimpernel.

    I know where king-cups grow And wink-a-peeps that sleep when days are dark.

    1905, Edwin Davies Schoonmaker, The Saxons: A Drama of Christianity in the North
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