bo-peep
Americannoun
noun
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a game for very young children, in which one hides (esp hiding one's face in one's hands) and reappears suddenly
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informal a quick look (esp in the phrase have a bo-peep )
Etymology
Origin of bo-peep
Example Sentences
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A few feet away a woman was playing bo-peep with a frightened child.
From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
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
"That it is," exclaimed the Queen laughing, "I've had mony a game o' bo-peep in 't mysel'."
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
The children's game of bo-peep is as old as the hills, hiding from each other, and saying,— Bo-Peep, Little Bo-Peep: Now's the time for hide and seek.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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