bo-peep

American  

[boh-peep] / boʊˈpip /

noun

1. peekaboo.

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bo-peep British  

/ ˌbəʊˈpiːp /

noun

1. a game for very young children, in which one hides (esp hiding one's face in one's hands) and reappears suddenly

2. informal a quick look (esp in the phrase have a bo-peep )

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Etymology

Origin of bo-peep

1520–30; bo (variant of boo ¹ ) + peep ¹

Example Sentences

Here sits a stalwart gentleman of middle age, with a little boy and girl on either knee, who play bo-peep with his wide-spreading yellow beard.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian

A few feet away a woman was playing bo-peep with a frightened child.

From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

I'll toss him up, I'll tumble him, Play "creep-mouse," and "bo-peep," Perhaps if I can make him laugh, The laugh will make him sleep.

From The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

The Ainu are also good at rapid "winking," first with one eye, then the other, each eye playing at an inexpressibly funny kind of bo-peep.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage

The term bo-peep appears to have been connected at a very early period with sheep.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)