A large notion of the importance of the preacher occasionally peeps up. A round-faced young woman peeps out of window; laughs at their words or at the romps of the children in the mounds of hay.
Her curiosity, however, is uncontrollable; and the moment the dwarf vanishes she peeps into her apron, to find simply black coals. I just used it referring to my fellow retiree buds.
Popularist literature attempted to identify with those peeps and show how they could be their own source of power…but only if the peeps act together and enforced their own standards and principles of the peeps. A peeps movement is very grass roots or lowest common denominator oriented. I can state categorically that the modern interpretation of peeps is a shortened version of people.
I should know since it originated from me. Just over a decade ago, Before the likes of Facebook took hold, forums were the popular online places to be.
At that time I headed up n-gage-help. In less than six months this word became a standard right across the newly developing Social media and as they say the rest is history. By Maeve Maddox. Stop making those embarrassing mistakes! Subscribe to Daily Writing Tips today! You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! You'll also get three bonus ebooks completely free! Try It Free Now. Brad K. Baraka on November 20, am Mark Cornwell on November 20, am I believe the origin may be relatively recent.
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