wink-a-peep

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Noun[edit]

wink-a-peep (plural wink-a-peeps)

  1. (dialect, colloquial) An eye.
  2. A plant, the scarlet pimpernel.
    • 1905, Edwin Davies Schoonmaker, The Saxons: A Drama of Christianity in the North:
      I know where king-cups grow
      And wink-a-peeps that sleep when days are dark.
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