| 单词 | to play bo-peep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play (at) bo-peep (with) a. A nursery play with a young child, who is kept in excitement by the nurse or play-mate alternately concealing herself (or her face), and peeping out for a moment at an unexpected place, to withdraw again with equal suddenness. Johnson says ‘The act of looking out and then drawing back as if frighted, or with the purpose to fright some other’. Hence to play (at) bo-peep (with); also figurative, in many obvious applications. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > bo-peep bo-peep1528 bo-keik1535 peekaboo1600 hity-tity1609 titbore tatbore1614 peep-bo1660 peep1677 teet-boa1774 hide-and-peep1832 peep-eye1887 teetie-bo1892 1528 W. Tyndale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 214 Mark how he playeth bo-peep with the scripture. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. A.vii Yf Tindal wyll..playe boo pepe withe the tencis. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1980) iii. i. 35 This blinded State, that plaies at boa-peep wth vs. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Q Her pretty feet Like snailes did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at Bo-peep, Did soon draw in agen. 1658 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James (1673) 526 Forced to..die in a Prison, or play at Bo-peep all the remainder of their days with their Creditors. 1701 Interest of England 34 Men..That..do nothing but play at Bo-peep with God Almighty. a1849 H. Coleridge Poems (1850) II. 217 What fancy so pretty is playing bo-peep With the innocent's thoughts in the fields of sleep? < as lemmas |
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