different between weep vs gweep

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?p, IPA^(key): /wi?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English wepen, from Old English w?pan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *w?pijan, from Proto-Germanic *w?pijan? (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh?b- (“to call, cry, complain”).

Cognate with Scots wepe, weip (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”).

Verb

weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle wept or (poetic, otherwise nonstandard) weeped)

1. To cry; shed tears.

   • They wept together in silence.

2. To lament; to complain.

   • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

3. (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

   a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
   • 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove

     Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
     Of having lost her favorite dove.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. A session of crying.

   Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.

Etymology 2

Imitative of its cry.

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

gweep (plural gweeps)

1. (dated, computing, slang) A hacker on early minicomputers

Related terms

• fweep