peeper

English

From peep +‎ -er.

peeper (plural peepers)

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) The eye.
Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!
- 1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Jeepers Creepers
  Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get them peepers?
  
  Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?
- 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36:
  The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.
Someone who peeps; a spy.
- 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker, Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  Who's there? peepers, intelligencers, eavesdroppers?
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
  If listeners seldom hear good of themselves, it is also true that peepers sometimes see more than they like; and Betty, the cook, as she reached the landing, glancing askance with ominous curiosity, beheld a spectacle, the sight of which nearly bereft her of her senses.
(dated, slang, derogatory) A private detective.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
  So you go to see this peeper, this Marlowe. That was your mistake.
A peeping tom.
An animal, such as some frogs, having a shrill, high-pitched call.
(colloquial) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

eye (colloquial)

Bulgarian: око (bg) n (oko), зъркел m (zǎrkel)
Italian: occhio (it) m, occhi (it) m pl
Spanish: farol (es) m, clisos m pl
Russian: морга́ло (ru) n (morgálo), chiefly plural: морга́ла (ru) n pl (morgála), гляде́лка (ru) f (gljadélka)