peeper
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- noun
- /ˈpipər/
- US
:
ranita
- I spend spring nights photographing spring peepers and chorus frogs.
- spring peepers
Examples
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Stonewall Jackson twitches his ears at the scratching of crickets, of peepers peeping in the cattails around Surprise Creek.
Fiction book (1992) -
All the frogs were singing into the night: the bullfrogs, the peepers, the toads.
Fiction book (1999) -
One evening, I sat outside alone, and as soon as the peepers began to sing, I started to cry.
Fiction book (1994) -
Afterwards, I walked across the campus listening for the sound of peepers.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now the frogs had begun, thousands upon thousands of peepers in the darkness.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Wetlands is probably loud with peepers and chorus frogs.
Blog text (13) -
At the beaver pond, elementary school students hunted spring peepers.
Fiction book (2000) -
Rosie and Paul snuggled side by side on the worn green sofa, open books in hand, the quiet broken only by the sounds of peepers and the distant yapping of a farm dog.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the spring, the sound of peepers fills the air as they call for mates in the evening.
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The night was alive with the calls of peepers, their high-pitched sounds echoing across the pond.
Synonyms
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A small North American tree frog that makes a very high, thin call near ponds in spring
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A small North American frog with a loud musical call
A small brown tree frog that makes a high thin call near marshes in spring
Compounds
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A small North American tree frog that makes a very high, thin call near ponds in spring
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Etymology
Peeper for the small spring frog comes from peep 'short high sound' plus -er because these frogs make a quick peeping call and are even called 'spring peepers', so the name describes the animal by its sound.