ˈday-peep
Peep of day; earliest dawn.
| [1530 Palsgr. 804/1 At daye pype, a la pipe du jour.] 1606 Wily Beguiled in Hazl. Dodsley IX. 250 She'll run out o'nights a-dancing, and come no more home till day⁓peep. 1641 Milton Animadv. xiii. (1851) 231 The honest Gardener, that ever since the day-peepe..had wrought painfully. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth v, Good night, or rather, good morrow, till day-peep. |