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Definition of Bopeep
1. Noun. A game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!.
Definition of Bopeep
1. n. The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
Definition of Bopeep
1. a game of peekaboo [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bopeep
Literary usage of Bopeep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"LITTLE bopeep AND LITTLE BOY BLUE BY SAMUEL MINTURN PECK It happened one morning
that ... So wildly bewitching that beautiful morn Was Little bopeep that he ..."
2. A Treasury of American Verse by Walter Learned, H. C. Edwards, Thomas McIlvaine (1897)
"IT happened one morning that Little bopeep, While watching her frolicsome,
mischievous sheep Out in the meadow, fell fast asleep. By her wind-blown tresses ..."
3. The Dramatic First Reader by Ellen M. Cyr (1905)
"bopeep. Why, what is the matter? Jack. We were coming down the hill and I fell and
... bopeep. Your dress will soon dry. Go back and fill your pail again. ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1873)
"It was bopeep the Great, aud naught but itself could be its parallel. But why
bopeep ? My dear sir, can you tell me why there is a street in Dublin called ..."
5. The Ten Books of the Merrymakers edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"So wildly bewitching that beautiful morn Was Little bopeep that he dropped his
horn And thought no more of the cows in the corn. Our sorrows are many, ..."
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