leep

See also: Leep and LEEP

English

Verb

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

leep (comparative leper, superlative leepst)

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

Inflection
Inflection of leep
uninflected leep
inflected lepe
comparative leper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial leepleperhet leepst
het leepste
indefinite m./f. sing. lepelepereleepste
n. sing. leepleperleepste
plural lepelepereleepste
definite lepelepereleepste
partitive leepslepers—

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Middle English

Verb

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
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