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

For round a bough I'll creep, Playing hide-and-seek so sly, Or through the leaves bo-peep, With my little shining eye.

From The Gold Thread A Story for the Young by Macleod, Norman

That it is a variant of peep is seen in the child's word peek-a-boo, equivalent to bo-peep.

From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Bierce, Ambrose

I am afraid Theodore and Horace are playing bo-peep with their shadows.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Like snails did creep her pretty feet A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Before he had decided one way or the other, the squirrel, still scolding and playing bo-peep, scampered off his bough, and up the trunk of the maple.

From Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods by Hornibrook, Isabel