Definition of Bopeep

1. Noun. A game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!.

Exact synonyms: Peekaboo
Generic synonyms: Child's Game

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

boozehound
boozehounds
boozer
boozers
boozes
boozey
boozier
booziest
boozily
booziness
boozinesses
boozing
boozings
boozy
bop
bopeep (current term)
bopeeps
bopomofo
bopped
bopper
boppers
boppier
boppiest
bopping
boppish
boppy
bops
bor
bora
boraces

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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