| 单词 | whoopers hide |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhoopers hide † whoopers hide: a children's game resembling hide and seek, in which one or more players have to look for others who have hidden themselves and who shout ‘whoop’, either as a signal that they are hidden, or before moving from one hiding place to another in order to confuse those looking for them. Also in figurative or allusive use. Cf. whoop n.1 4, whoop v. Phrases. Obsolete. 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- 1684 in N. Thompson Choice Coll. Loyal Songs 138 His Wife with Willy, was playing at Hoopers-hide. 1710 Auction of State Pictures 10 Look here, here's the Picture of an Eminent Lord playing at Hooper's Hide with Religion. 1714 A. Smith Hist. Lives Highway-men 241 The Goldsmith cry'd, Hey, hey, is this a place to play in at Whoopers Hide? Get you gone, you young Rogue, and play in the Streets. 1753 Wks. late A. Hill 9 Hoodwink'd, at whooper's hide, to hunt salvation, They guard their back-held nose from demonstration. 1831 Devil's Pulpit (1882) 297 The annual Egyptian ceremony of seeking for Ammon, the God that hides himself, the everlasting game of Hooper's Hide, or hide and seek, is enjoined in a thousand beautiful recitatives of our own Ammonian. < as lemmas |
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