Looking vs Peeking - What's the difference?
looking | peeking |
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
* 1988 September 12, New York Magazine , page 226
(obsolete) The act of one who looks; a glance.
(obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
* Chaucer
The act of one who peeks.
* 2011 , Silvia Moreno-Garcia, ?Paula Regina Stiles, Historical Lovecraft: Tales of Horror Through Time
As verbs the difference between looking and peeking
is that looking is while peeking is .As nouns the difference between looking and peeking
is that looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance while peeking is the act of one who peeks.looking
English
Verb
(head)George Goodchild
- Good-Looking', Funny Guy — (Not funny-' looking , good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
Derived terms
* good-looking * looking glassNoun
(en noun)- All dreary was his cheer and his looking .
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*peeking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Some children, in their furtive peekings and lurkings, spoke of little Taro discovering these unpleasant gifts and hiding with them