| 单词 | hyspy |
| 释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : hy-spyn. > as lemmashy-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. < see also as lemmas |
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