Peeps vs Weeps - What's the difference?
peeps | weeps |
(peep)
(weep)
To cry; shed tears.
* Longfellow
To lament; to complain.
* Bible, Numbers xi. 13
(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
* Shakespeare
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
(obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
* Prior
As a noun peeps
is .As a verb weeps is
(weep).peeps
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Etymology 1
peepNoun
(head)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Shortened from people, with simplified spelling, + -s to emphasize the plurality of the wordweeps
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*weep
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- They wept together in silence.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- The blood weeps from my heart.
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.