Spring peepers

peep·er¹ (p

A creature that makes short, high-pitched sounds, especially a frog.

peep·er² (p

1. One who peeks furtively.

2. Slang An eye.

peeper [ˈpiːpə]

1. a person who peeps

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) (often plural) a slang word for eye¹ [1]

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Noun	1.	peeper - a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others Peeping Tom, voyeur looker, spectator, viewer, watcher, witness - a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"
	2.	peeper - an informal term referring to the eye eye, oculus, optic - the organ of sight colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
	3.	peeper - an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

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animal animate being beast brute colloquialism creature eye fauna genus Hyla hyla Hyla crucifer looker oculus optic peepers peeping Tom spectator spring peeper tree frog	For me, spring peepers, the first amphibians we hear each spring, often occur together in large numbers and collectively sound like high pitched, soft sleigh bells. Frog hunt plays to quite a melody by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) Red-winged blackbirds will be arriving, in the Northeast, Spring peepers will be peeping there, and loons will be mating. Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for Winter of 2007 by Countryside & Small Stock Journal When we moved here in 1997 I walked by in early spring and it was so full of spring peepers, those little inch-long tree frogs that make a single loud peep over and over in search of a mate, that you could hardly distinguish one from the next. Jeepers, creepers, what happened to the peepers? Where are the frogs? by Lindorff, Dave / Synthesis/Regeneration	Spring bed Spring beetle spring binder Spring box spring break spring cankerworm spring chicken spring cleavers spring cress spring ephemeral spring equinox spring fever Spring fly spring frog Spring grass spring gun spring heath Spring hook Spring latch spring lock spring mattress Spring of an arch Spring of pork spring onion spring peeper Spring peepers Spring pin spring roll Spring rye spring scale spring squill Spring stay Spring steel spring tide spring to mind spring training spring up Spring Valley spring vetch spring vetchling Spring wagon spring water Spring wheat spring-blooming spring-clean spring-cleaning spring-flowering spring-like spring-loaded spring-release Springal	Spring Mill State Park spring modulus Spring Mountain District Association Spring Mountain Ranch State Park Spring Mountain Youth Camp Spring Mountains National Recreation Area Spring Music Festival spring needle spring nutrition Spring of an arch Spring of Culture Spring of Nations Spring of pork Spring of Prague spring on spring on spring on spring on spring on spring onion spring onion Spring onions Spring onions Spring Operated Safety Relief Valve spring out at spring out of Spring Over Axle spring parsley spring peeper spring peeper Spring peepers Spring Perch On Axle Spring pin Spring pin Spring Plowing spring practice Spring Pressure Pilot spring rabbitbrush Spring Racing Carnival spring range Spring Revel Downunder spring rise spring rise spring roll spring roll Spring rolls spring round-up Spring rye spring scale spring scale spring seepage Spring Service Project spring shackle spring sludge spring snib Spring Snow Spring South Australian Health Omnibus Survey spring squill spring squill spring squill spring squills

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animate being
beast
brute
colloquialism
creature
eye
fauna
genus Hyla
hyla
Hyla crucifer
looker
oculus
optic
peepers
peeping Tom
spectator
spring peeper
tree frog

For me, spring peepers, the first amphibians we hear each spring, often occur together in large numbers and collectively sound like high pitched, soft sleigh bells.

Frog hunt plays to quite a melody by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

Red-winged blackbirds will be arriving, in the Northeast, Spring peepers will be peeping there, and loons will be mating.

Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for Winter of 2007 by Countryside & Small Stock Journal

When we moved here in 1997 I walked by in early spring and it was so full of spring peepers, those little inch-long tree frogs that make a single loud peep over and over in search of a mate, that you could hardly distinguish one from the next.

Jeepers, creepers, what happened to the peepers? Where are the frogs? by Lindorff, Dave / Synthesis/Regeneration

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Spring peepers

Spring Perch On Axle
Spring pin
Spring pin
Spring Plowing
spring practice
Spring Pressure Pilot
spring rabbitbrush
Spring Racing Carnival
spring range
Spring Revel Downunder
spring rise
spring rise
spring roll
spring roll
Spring rolls
spring round-up
Spring rye
spring scale
spring scale
spring seepage
Spring Service Project
spring shackle
spring sludge
spring snib
Spring Snow
Spring South Australian Health Omnibus Survey
spring squill
spring squill
spring squill
spring squills

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