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bo-peep
bo-peep
English
Alternative forms
- bo peep, bopeep
Noun
- The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle someone (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
- 1606, The Tragedy of King Lear by Shakespeare, scene IV
- That such a king should play bo-peep, / And go the fools among.
- 1881, Geneva Gazette - Jul 8, 1881, page 2, "Official Paper Of The Village"
- They have not employed spies, nor been voluntary or involuntary witnesses of misdeeds or played "bopeep" through key-holes or from step-ladders through transom windows, upon the privacy of their political adversaries.
- 1606, The Tragedy of King Lear by Shakespeare, scene IV
- (countable, British Virgin Islands) Any whistling frog.
Synonyms
- (children's game): peek-a-boo, peep bo
Derived terms
- play at bo peep
- play bo peep
- bo peepers / bo-peepers
Translations
act of sudden looking-out