hy-spyn.

/hʌɪspʌɪ/

Forms: Also hi-spy, I spy.

A children's game played in many parts of Great Britain and of the United States, in which a seeker, on discovering one of the hiders, cries ‘hy spy!’, or ‘I spy (such a one)!’, upon which all the seekers run back to ‘den’ pursued by the hider who has thus been ‘spied’, and who tries to capture one or more of them, so as to add them to the side of the hiders.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > other hiding games

hy-spy1777

run, sheep, run1881

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific

what's my thought like?1748

twenty questions1786

charade1826

how, when, and where1843

proverbs1855

hy-spy1876

game1937

I spy (with my little eye)1946

1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1870) II. 336 ‘I spye’, is the usual exclamation at a childish game called ‘Hie, spy, hie’.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xix. 355 I must come to play at Blind Harry and Hy Spy with them.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 5 The ‘I spy’, ‘halloo’, and the marble-ring, And many a game that infancy employs.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxix. 217 They had an exhausting good time playing ‘hi-spy’.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Hy spy, a boy's game.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxiv. 421 It is the same instinct which leads a boy playing ‘I spy’ to hold his breath when the seeker is near.

1906 Folk-Lore XVII. 97 Key Hoy. Possibly a modification of ‘I Spy’.

1963 Times 13 May 15/7 I lament the passing of our daily games of catch-as-catch-can in the cupboards, hide-and-seek behind the wardrobe and I-spy under the piano!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

d. In the names of children's games: (a) hy-spy, I spy: see hy-spy n.; (b) I spy (with my little eye), a game in which one player selects an object (visible to all) for the others to guess, giving them its colour or its initial letter with the words ‘I spy with my little eye something (blue, etc.) or beginning with —’.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific

what's my thought like?1748

twenty questions1786

charade1826

how, when, and where1843

proverbs1855

hy-spy1876

game1937

I spy (with my little eye)1946

1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 80 We remained below and played I Spy—with colours, not the alphabet, so that my brother could join in.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games x. 275 Their participation in intellectual guessing games, even of the humble order of..‘I Spy With My Little Eye’, is apt to be limited to occasions when they are restricted and unable to play anything else.

1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) vi. 85 Stories, and such verbal games as ‘I-spy’ and ‘Knock-knock’, encourage children to explore speech sounds and help them develop a better intuitive understanding of these sounds.

单词	hy-spy
释义	hy-spyn. /hʌɪspʌɪ/ Forms: Also hi-spy, I spy. A children's game played in many parts of Great Britain and of the United States, in which a seeker, on discovering one of the hiders, cries ‘hy spy!’, or ‘I spy (such a one)!’, upon which all the seekers run back to ‘den’ pursued by the hider who has thus been ‘spied’, and who tries to capture one or more of them, so as to add them to the side of the hiders. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > other hiding games hy-spy1777 run, sheep, run1881 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific what's my thought like?1748 twenty questions1786 charade1826 how, when, and where1843 proverbs1855 hy-spy1876 game1937 I spy (with my little eye)1946 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1870) II. 336 ‘I spye’, is the usual exclamation at a childish game called ‘Hie, spy, hie’. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xix. 355 I must come to play at Blind Harry and Hy Spy with them. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 5 The ‘I spy’, ‘halloo’, and the marble-ring, And many a game that infancy employs. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxix. 217 They had an exhausting good time playing ‘hi-spy’. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Hy spy, a boy's game. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxiv. 421 It is the same instinct which leads a boy playing ‘I spy’ to hold his breath when the seeker is near. 1906 Folk-Lore XVII. 97 Key Hoy. Possibly a modification of ‘I Spy’. 1963 Times 13 May 15/7 I lament the passing of our daily games of catch-as-catch-can in the cupboards, hide-and-seek behind the wardrobe and I-spy under the piano! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). > as lemmas hy-spy d. In the names of children's games: (a) hy-spy, I spy: see hy-spy n.; (b) I spy (with my little eye), a game in which one player selects an object (visible to all) for the others to guess, giving them its colour or its initial letter with the words ‘I spy with my little eye something (blue, etc.) or beginning with —’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific what's my thought like?1748 twenty questions1786 charade1826 how, when, and where1843 proverbs1855 hy-spy1876 game1937 I spy (with my little eye)1946 1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 80 We remained below and played I Spy—with colours, not the alphabet, so that my brother could join in. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games x. 275 Their participation in intellectual guessing games, even of the humble order of..‘I Spy With My Little Eye’, is apt to be limited to occasions when they are restricted and unable to play anything else. 1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) vi. 85 Stories, and such verbal games as ‘I-spy’ and ‘Knock-knock’, encourage children to explore speech sounds and help them develop a better intuitive understanding of these sounds. extracted from spyv. < n.1777 as lemmas
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