by neufer » Tue Jun 26, 2018 5:08 pm
MarkBour wrote: ↑Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:43 pmToogie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:05 pm
It might of been better to have saved this one for Halloween. There's lots of ghouls and demons and witches in this pic along with spooky eyes in the dark.
I think the caption should use "peek" rather than "peak", although even that is a bit metaphorical (which is fine, if you want ... more literally,
we're the ones doing the "peeking", the starlight is barely "penetrating", or "passing" through the dust).
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/peek
peek (v.) late 14c., piken "look quickly and slyly," of unknown origin. The words peek, keek, and peep all were used with more or less the same meaning 14c.-15c.; perhaps the ultimate source was Middle Dutch kieken.
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peekaboo (n.) also peek-a-boo, as a children's game attested from 1590s; as an adjective meaning "see-through, open," it dates from 1895. From peek (v.) + boo.
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boo (interj.) early 15c., boh, "A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound" [OED, which compares Latin boare, Greek boaein "to cry aloud, roar, shout"]; as an expression of disapproval, 1884 (n.); hence, the verb meaning "shower (someone) with boos" (1885). Booing was common late 19c. among London theater audiences and at British political events; in Italy, Parma opera-goers were notorious boo-birds. But the custom seems to have been little-known in America before c. 1910. To say boo "open one's mouth, speak," originally was to say boo to a goose.
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/peak
peak (v.) 1570s, "to rise in a peak," from peak (n.). Figurative meaning "reach highest point" first recorded 1958.
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peak (n.) "pointed top," 1520s, variant of pike (n.4) "sharp point." Meaning "top of a mountain" first recorded 1630s, though pike was used in this sense c. 1400. Figurative sense is 1784. Meaning "point formed by hair on the forehead" is from 1833. According to OED, The Peak in Derbyshire is older than the word for "mountaintop;" compare Old English Peaclond, for the district, Pecsaetan, for the people who settled there, Peaces ærs for Peak Cavern; sometimes said to be a reference to an elf-denizen Peac "Puck."
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[quote=MarkBour post_id=283624 time=1530027783 user_id=141361][quote=Toogie post_id=283620 time=1530018303]
It might of been better to have saved this one for Halloween. There's lots of ghouls and demons and witches in this pic along with spooky eyes in the dark.[/quote]
I think the caption should use "peek" rather than "peak", although even that is a bit metaphorical (which is fine, if you want ... more literally, [i]we're[/i] the ones doing the "peeking", the starlight is barely "penetrating", or "passing" through the dust).[/quote]-----------------------------------------
https://www.etymonline.com/word/peek
peek (v.) late 14c., piken "look quickly and slyly," of unknown origin. The words peek, keek, and peep all were used with more or less the same meaning 14c.-15c.; perhaps the ultimate source was Middle Dutch kieken.
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peekaboo (n.) also peek-a-boo, as a children's game attested from 1590s; as an adjective meaning "see-through, open," it dates from 1895. From peek (v.) + boo.
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boo (interj.) early 15c., boh, "A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound" [OED, which compares Latin boare, Greek boaein "to cry aloud, roar, shout"]; as an expression of disapproval, 1884 (n.); hence, the verb meaning "shower (someone) with boos" (1885). Booing was common late 19c. among London theater audiences and at British political events; in Italy, Parma opera-goers were notorious boo-birds. But the custom seems to have been little-known in America before c. 1910. To say boo "open one's mouth, speak," originally was to say boo to a goose.
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/peak
peak (v.) 1570s, "to rise in a peak," from peak (n.). Figurative meaning "reach highest point" first recorded 1958.
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peak (n.) "pointed top," 1520s, variant of pike (n.4) "sharp point." Meaning "top of a mountain" first recorded 1630s, though pike was used in this sense c. 1400. Figurative sense is 1784. Meaning "point formed by hair on the forehead" is from 1833. According to OED, The Peak in Derbyshire is older than the word for "mountaintop;" compare Old English Peaclond, for the district, Pecsaetan, for the people who settled there, Peaces ærs for Peak Cavern; sometimes said to be a reference to an elf-denizen Peac "Puck."
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