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peek-a-boo
Also peek-bo.
[f. peek v.1: cf. keek-bo, keek v. 3.]
a. = bo-peep, peep-bo. (See N. & Q. 10th ser. II. 85, 153.) Also attrib. and as v.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. ii. (fol. 1616), Nay, neuer play peeke-boe [fol. 1640 bopeep] with me. c1880American Song (in N. & Q., as above), Peek-a-boo! Peek-a-boo! I see you hiding there. 1903C. Copeland School of Woods (U.S.) 29 Like a mischievous child playing at peek-aboo. 1903[see high sign s.v. high a. 21]. 1922Joyce Ulysses 46 Peekaboo. I see you. 1940S. O'Casey Let. 19 May (1975) I. 862 I'm..kicking football with Niall; & peek a boo with Shivaun. 1950G. Barker True Confession ii. 10 But Memory flirts with seven veils Peekabooing the accidental. 1960Times 22 June 5/5 Covering up behind his high ‘peek-a-boo’ guard, he [sc. Floyd Patterson] rode out the brief crisis. 1967S. Beckett Stories & Texts for Nothing 124 But peekaboo here I come again, just when most needed.
b. Used attrib. and absol. of various garments decorated with holes (see quots.).
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 306/3 Child's Sun Bonnet, made of printed lawn, peek-a-boo front. 1906Daily Chron. 16 Aug. 8/1 The dreamer is embowered in soft cushions, and being punted by a River Girl, in a peek-a⁓boo blouse—all grace and lissomness and tan and bare arms. 1906Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 10 May 13 In San Francisco there is no winter suit and summer suit. The same medium-weight garment is worn the year round and the peek-a-boo waist is unknown. 1907Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 3/2 ‘The Peek-a-boo blouse’..is as popular here as in America. 1910‘Mark Twain’ Speeches 87 Why not adopt some of the women's styles?.. Take the peek-a-boo waist, for instance. 1913Maclean's Mag. Aug. 103/1 The wars upon cigarettes, bridge whist and peekaboo waists are passing madnesses. 1930M. Sullivan Our Times III. 499 A shirt-waist, supposed to be an extreme of daring, in which embroidered perforations permitted sight of female epidermis upon the arms and as much as two inches below the nape of the neck, was called the ‘peek-a-boo’. 1957M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 246/2 Peek-a-boo waist, shirt⁓waist of eyelet or sheer fabric. 1959J. Braine Vodi xiv. 195 The peekaboo blouse..now seemed vulgar, a barmaid's uniform. Ibid. 196 A naughty little girl who wore peekaboo blouses. 1969R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume (1970) 263/2 Peek-a-boo blouse, a shirtwaist of sheer lawn, voile or eyelet embroidery, a popular fashion of the 1890's and the first decade of the twentieth century. It was worn over a lacy, frilled corset cover. 1972‘E. McBain’ Sadie when she Died x. 107 Carella..wondered if he should tell Teddy about the brunette in the peekaboo blouse.
c. Used attrib. and absol. of a woman's hairstyle (see quots.).
1948M. M. Miller Winchester's Screen Encycl. 117/2 Her ‘peek-a-boo’ style secured major part for her, under new name Veronica Lake. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 109/2 Peekaboo locks, hanging hair that partly conceals the face and eyes. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 195 Peek-a-boo, hair style that originated..in 1941. The hair was cut so that it hung about 8 inches below the shoulders; in front it covered one eye and was softly waved to the end. 1973Daily Tel. 9 July 17/3 Veronica Lake, the filmstar who was famous in the 1940s for her ‘peek-a-boo’ hairstyle, died in Vermont, America, on Saturday of acute hepatitis. Ibid., The peek-a-boo hairstyle—long blonde tresses hanging over her right eye—disappeared in 1943 after the United States Government made an official request to Paramount to cut her hair. |