| 释义 |
hy-spy|haɪ spaɪ|
Also hi-spy, I spy.
A boy's game played in many parts of Great Britain and of the United States, in which a seeker, on discovering one of the hiders, cries ‘hy spy!’, or ‘I spy (such a one)!’, upon which all the seekers run back to ‘den’ pursued by the hider who has thus been ‘spied’, and who tries to capture one or more of them, so as to add them to the side of the hiders.
1777Brand Pop. Antiq. (1870) II. 336, ‘I spye’, is the usual exclamation at a childish game called ‘Hie, spy, hie’. 1815Scott Guy M. lviii, I must come to play at Blind Harry and Hy Spy with them. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 5 The ‘I spy’, ‘halloo’, and the marble-ring, And many a game that infancy employs. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Hy spy, a boy's game. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer xxviii. 267 They had an exhausting good time playing ‘hi-spy’. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxiv. 421 It is the same instinct which leads a boy playing ‘I spy’ to hold his breath when the seeker is near. 1906Folk-Lore XVII. 97 Key Hoy. Possibly a modification of ‘I Spy’. 1963Times 13 May 15/7, I lament the passing of our daily games of catch-as-catch-can in the cupboards, hide-and-seek behind the wardrobe and I-spy under the piano! |