Weeped vs Eeped - What's the difference?
weeped | eeped |
(weep) (drainage sense)
* 1998 , Robert J. Kudder, ?Jeffrey L. Erdly, Water Leakage Through Building Facades
(eep)
(onomatopoeia) An expression of surprise or dismay.
* 1993 , Bart's Inner Child [http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F05.html]
* 2000, , Ready, Okay!
* 2000, John Palisano, Journey Through Time [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0738826049&id=1LFb_NU01VgC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22eep+*+said%22&sig=UC6HjuFNxoIPrw7f1drNJwIercc]
A short scream or yelp.
* 1853 , Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, and John Holmes Agnew (eds.), ,
* 1962', Jet Screamer, '''', "' Eep opp ork ah ah! And that means 'I love you'!" (but, according to Elroy Jetson in the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", he says Judy Jetson wrote it for him, "eep opp ork ah-ah" means "meet me tonight")[http://www.tvacres.com/music_songs_jetsons.htm] (Note: this reference is incorrect.)
* 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3o]
To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.
* 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3o]
* 2002, Chris Crutcher, “The Other Pin,” in Athletic Shorts [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0060507837&id=BhSYywd2SqMC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22he+eeps%22&sig=Lp5m2rWEorvsRu5gjHTu4R1bfV4]
* 2003, John Treadwell Nichols, The Voice of the Butterfly [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0811839907&id=OdDs928s-PwC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=%22she+eeped%22&sig=mtJl10KCTmZxASjLdTwzUg_V3a0]
As verbs the difference between weeped and eeped
is that weeped is (weep) (drainage sense) while eeped is (eep).weeped
English
Verb
(head)- The first determination to make is whether or not the flashing should be weeped .
eeped
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*eep
English
(wikipedia eep)Interjection
(en interjection)- Hot-dog vendor: “Get him!”
- Bart: “Eep .”
- Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.
- “Eep ,” I said.
- On the opposite side a bottle crashed. Shards twinkle screamed in a circle around her head. “Eep ,” she said, breathed, and nearly screamed.
Noun
(en noun)page 460,
- "Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."
- She encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep .”
Verb
(en verb)- Now there are fulfilled women happily “eeping ” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.
- Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.
- Before I could answer, a tiny green krait dropped out of Tristan’s nostril and slithered swiftly toward Susan’s sandaled feet: She eeped , dropped my arm, and fled for her life.