Scot., North Eng. to peep; spy
Origin of keek
Middle English kiken, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German k?kenkeek
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keek
Scots
intransitive verb
keeked, keek·ing, keeksTo peek; peep.
noun
A look, especially a quick one; a peek.
Origin of keek
Middle English kiken, keken perhaps from Middle Dutch kikenTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present keeks, present participle keeking, simple past and past participle keeked)
Origin
From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), possibly from Middle Dutch kieken or Middle Low German kīken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”). Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), Low German kīken (“to look”), German kucken, gucken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kikja (“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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