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Weep vs Meep - What's the difference?

weep | meep |

As verbs the difference between weep and meep

is that weep is to cry; shed tears while meep is to make a high-pitched exclamation.

As nouns the difference between weep and meep

is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while meep is an endearing term of affection between lovers.

As an interjection meep is

a nonsense word, imitating an animal's cry, or a car's horn.

weep

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To cry; shed tears.
  • * Longfellow
    • They wept together in silence.
  • To lament; to complain.
  • * Bible, Numbers xi. 13
    • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  • To flow in drops; to run in drops.
    • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  • * Shakespeare
    • The blood weeps from my heart.
  • 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
    • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willow

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of its cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lapwing; the wipe.

    • meep

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • a nonsense word, imitating an animal's cry, or a car's horn
  • * ???', , ''Meep the Baby Martin'', published in ''Soviet Literature: Issues 7-12'' in ' 1983 :
    • "Meep, meep, meep! " echoed his brothers and sisters. They all felt pleased with themselves for having learnt to call their mother [...]
  • * 2006 , Dave Bidini, The Five Hole Stories , page 62:
    • "We gave him three nervous breakdowns, you know," he says, waving his fingers in the rear view.
    "Listen, I..."
    "I've heard this kind of thing before. The English think the French are little blind dogs. Meep meep meep meep meep ," he says, performing a talking pantomime with his hand.

    Synonyms

    * beep

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an endearing term of affection between lovers
  • * 2012 , B. E. Josephman, Lilium Love Stories , page 607:
    • Brett poked Erica on the nose and said, "You are my little meep!"

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make a high-pitched exclamation
  • * 2005 , John Gardner, October Light , page 126:
    • He cried out, as if he meant it as a joke, "When I was Richard's age I nearly died of pneumonia." "Darling, it is cold," Ariah meeped , and put her mitten on his.
  • * 2005 , Rachel Caine, Chill Factor , page 103:
    • "See that guy down there?" Jonathan asked, and tilted my chair up on its front legs to give me a better view. I meeped and clutched the chair arms harder. "No? Well, okay, granted, they all look alike from up here. Here, I'll help." My forehead touched the glass. It rippled like water, and I melted right through the slick, cold surface, [...]
  • * 2007 , Pat Schmatz, Circle the Truth , page 188:
    • Rith stayed where he was, watching the silhouette of the cat in the darkness. She sat perfectly still and watched him back. Then she meeped and looked at the stairs.

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