单词 | all hid |
释义 | all hidn.int. Now U.S. (in African-American use) (chiefly historical). The game of hide-and-seek. Also as int.: the call used in the game (see note).‘All hid’ is used as a name for hide-and-seek in variants of the game in which that call is used by the seeker to ascertain whether all the other players have hidden, or by the hiders to inform the seeker that they are ready. The name is apparently attested earlier than hide-and-seek, and is found only in historical contexts in British English after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > hide-and-seek belly-blind?a1500 buck-hide?a1500 king-by-your-leave1572 all hid1598 wink all hid1609 hoopers hide1684 whoopers hide1684 whoop and hide1710 hide-and-seek1724 whoop1784 keek-bogle1791 hide-and-coop1850 billy-blind- buck-hood- society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [interjection] > calls at hide-and-seek keek-keeka1568 all hid1598 hide fox and all aftera1616 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 75 All hid, all hid, an olde infant play. View more context for this quotation 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. L2v Cryes all-hidde as boyes doe. 1637 T. Heywood Curtaine Lect. 209 She made the motion that they should goe to a sport call'd All-hid, which is a meere childrens pastime. 1673 M. Locke Present Pract. Musick 32 His Childish Plays of All Hid, and Fools Corner. 1843 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Mar. 77/2 Another and still simpler game was variously called in England and Scotland, All-hid, Harry Racket, Hoop and Hide, and Hide-ee. 1885 ‘E. Lyall’ In Golden Days I. x. 268 What games of All-hid we used to have! 1907 St. Nicholas Apr. 517/1 Dicky..was ever ready for a game of tag or ‘all-hid’ with his boy and girl companions. 1959 A. Lomax Rainbow Sign 39 We was playing All Hid at our house... It was singing..All hid. 2010 S. Christianson Freeing Charles i. 17 Slaves grew up playing games of ‘hide and seek’ and ‘all hid’ that helped them to refine their powers to avoid detection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.int.1598 |
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