leep

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See also: Leep and LEEP

English

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Verb

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leep

  1. Obsolete form of leap.
    Ye mountains, that ye did leep like rams; and ye hills, like lambs of the flock.

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːp

Adjective

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leep (comparative leper, superlative leepst)

  1. crafty, shrewd
  2. (obsolete) shifted, tilted
  3. with watery, tearing eyes

Declension

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Declension of leep
uninflected leep
inflected lepe
comparative leper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial leep leper het leepst
het leepste
indefinite m./f. sing. lepe lepere leepste
n. sing. leep leper leepste
plural lepe lepere leepste
definite lepe lepere leepste
partitive leeps lepers

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English hleapan; see leap.

Verb

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leep

  1. leap
    • 1481, William Caxton, The Historye of Reynard the Foxe:
      the dogges haue be sette on hym and haue hunted hym away / And ones they leep on hym vpon the banke
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

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See leap.

Noun

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leep (plural leepes)

  1. Alternative form of lep