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

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Example Sentences

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bo-peep

Take heed Of bo-peep with your pate, your pate, Sir, I speak plain language now.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Francis Beaumont

I am satisfied with the sight of a beautiful group of trees,--with watching the sunbeams flicker in and out among the branches, and play bo-peep with one another so happy and loving.

From Edelweiss A Story by Berthold Auerbach

For I like an old house, with its crooks and corners, and bo-peep passages, and closets, and steps, and ins and outs, wainscots, old pictures, and memories of the past.

From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn

Few, for example, fully appreciate the beauties of the Madeleine in Paris, who have not quietly watched its changing effect during the passage of the lesser light in her bo-peep proceedings with the clouds.

From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

There are two little stars That play at bo-peep With two little fish Far down in the deep; And two little frogs Cry neap, neap, neap; I see a dear baby That should be asleep.

From The Little Mother Goose by Jessie Willcox Smith

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