Definitions
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- 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. - noun countable Any whistling frog.
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Examples
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So before you could say, go bo-peep go, I was inside the henna tent getting my tat painted on.
Archive 2007-08-01 Elizabeth McClung 2007
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So before you could say, go bo-peep go, I was inside the henna tent getting my tat painted on.
A henna tattoo and musing on starting sex work Elizabeth McClung 2007
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In Deedish, ‘bo-peep’ is just a verbasaurus, primitive and old, a right toothy word for‘lostify.’
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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That he, who had been told by the servants continually that all the land for miles and miles around was his, should be shut out like a beggar, and compelled to play bo-peep, by people who lived in a hole in the ground, was a little more than in the whole entire course of his life he could ever have imagined.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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In Deedish, ‘bo-peep’ is just a verbasaurus, primitive and old, a right toothy word for‘lostify.’
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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For to tell the truth, I was heartily tired of lurking and playing bo-peep so long; to which nothing could have reconciled me, except my fear for Lorna.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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He had challenged the public to a game at bo-peep, and if he was discovered in his ‘hiding-hole,’ he must submit to the shame of detection.
Waverley 2004
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Few would have thought it possible, to see John playing at bo-peep round the mast, that he was the man who had caught up an iron bar and struck a Malay and a
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“You are going to leave me, then, my old playfellow,” said the boy; “and there is an end of all our game at bo-peep with the cowardly lubbards whom I brought hither to have their broad-footed nags shed by the devil and his imps?”
Kenilworth 2004
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I am like an old man gazing at the outside of his spectacles, and seeing, as he rubs the dust, the image of his grandson playing at bo-peep with him.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
minerva commented on the word bo-peep
...I took coach, with one of the windows quite up, the other almost up, playing at bo-peep at every chariot I saw in my way to Lincoln's Inn Fields...
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 20, 2007