different between queeb vs queep

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps related to queef??”)

Pronunciation

Noun

queeb (plural queebs)

1. (slang, vulgar) vaginal flatulence
   • 1998 March 6, "Peanutbuttermouf" (username), "Re: Fart Power", in alt.silly.little.newsgroup, Usenet:

     Does this figure also include queebs?

   • 2002 February 15, "Wendy Hankins" (username), "Re: Advice on air trapped in vagina", in soc.sexuality.general, Usenet:

     when this air builds up enough and she moves, it will cause her to expell it, producing the "queeb" (the word as i know it). […] ¶ […] but with the queeb, i just blame him, cause if he wasnt going in and out of there, there wouldnt be any air to get trapped.

   • 2002 October 7, "SGT Robo" (username), "Re: Humorous Nerd Report: The Fart Experiment", in misc.fitness.weights, Usenet:

     wonder if this applies to a queeb as well

   • 2003 April 18, "Livendive" (username), "Re: OT: Friday funny", in rec.skydiving, Usenet:

     Umm, Jim...those were just queebs. :-)

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Interjection

queep

1. The sound a bird may make, similar to peep, chirp, cheep.
   • 1918, Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer, The game birds of California

     In flight they often made a close flock calling, queep, queep, queep, queep, queep, . . .
2. The sound a machine may make, similar to beep. See pocketa-queep.

Verb

queep (third-person singular simple present queeps, present participle queeping, simple past and past participle queeped)

1. To emit a "queep" sound.

   • She started to speak, but the peek queeped, and she studded it on.

   • The computer queeped softly and then said, “Ship's systems ....”

   • “This used to be where the contractors kept their heavy equipment,” Lester rumbled, aiming a car door remote at the door, which queeped and opened.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

queep (uncountable)

1. (military, slang, US) Non-flying duties, typically paperwork, that are undesirable to pilots.

   Why in the hell isn’t there someone else to do all this queep?!

   • It isn't how well you fly, it's who you know and how well you perform your queep ground job.

   • Still, the above is a true reflection of statistical promotion rates in the context of our current queep-biased system.

   • What fighter pilots do is fly, and that they love, they have little love or tolerance for queep, a term for all paperwork and related jobs that keep a pilot out of the cockpit.

   • Besides, if you're not flying, your whole world is going to consist of nothing but office queep.

   • The stigma that surrounds a safety office and its staff is often that of naysayers or un-cool nerds. We’re the crushers of fun or sultans of queep in many squadrons, but there's no place for that kind of culture in the safety world.

Usage notes

Commonly used in the United States Air Force flying community.

Etymology 3

Short for "quad-sweep", a rowing boat/event.

Noun

queep (uncountable)

1. A rowing event, with two scullers and two sweepers per shell.