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单词 hide-and-seek
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hide-and-seekn.

Brit. /ˌhʌɪd(ə)n(d)ˈsiːk/, U.S. /ˌhaɪd(ə)nˈsik/
Forms: Also (chiefly U.S.) hide-and-go-seek.
1. A children's game, in which one or more of the players hide, and the rest, at a given signal, set out to find them.The earlier name was all hid: see hide v.1 1e; but hide-and-seek must have been well known before 1672: cf. 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > tag
tick1622
hide-and-seek1724
tag1738
tig1816
touch-last1825
touch1828
widdy widdy way1832
touch and run1844
tiggy1845
widdy1859
Tommy Touchwood1876
pom-pom-pull-away1883
pull-away1883
squat tag1883
stoop tag1898
he1900
it1969
shadow tag1969
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > hide-and-seek
belly-blind?a1500
buck-hide?a1500
king-by-your-leave1572
all hid1598
wink all hid1609
hoopers hide1684
whoopers hide1684
whoop and hide1710
hide-and-seek1724
whoop1784
keek-bogle1791
hide-and-coop1850
billy-blind-
buck-hood-
1724 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1900) XXXVI. 333 At night was at Madam Brownes playing hide and goe seek with Olive Parker, Wibird, &c.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iii. 48 The Boys and Girls would venture to come and play at Hide and Seek in my Hair.
1735 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms Hide-and-fox [cf. hide v.1 2b], hide-and-seek.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 88 The ragged boys..played a noisy game at hide-and-seek among the tombstones.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. i. 5 The children..play hide-and-seek and look for nests in the gorse-bushes.
1908 T. Roosevelt Lett. to his Children 2 Jan. (1919) Do you recollect how we all used to play hide-and-go-seek in the White House?
1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby v. 82 At first I thought it was another party, a wild rout that had resolved itself into ‘hide-and-go-seek’.
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 154 In Scotland it is often ‘Hide and Go Seek’—as also in the United States.
1971 A. Bailey In Village (1972) xx. 202 There are games of prisoner's base and hide-and-go-seek..with the parked cars providing a forest of hiding places.
2. transferred and figurative. Applied to action in which one person or thing evades or appears to evade another. Also attributive.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > evasion or escape from threat > evasive action
jouking1513
dodging1593
hide-and-seek1673
on the run?1679
(to take) evasive action1940
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. ii. 46 'Sdeath, I begin to be weary of this hide and seek.
1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer ii. i. 13 Our Armies did nothing but play at Prison Bars, and hide and seek with the Enemy.
1828 C. Wordsworth King Charles I 31 All these hide-and-seek devices, all this idle child's play.
1861 G. A. Sala Dutch Pict. xviii. 288 The treacherous sun..has been playing a game of hide-and-seek with me all day.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xvii. 298 Rose..could not have put her thoughts in any consecutive words—they seemed to be playing at hide-and-go-seek in her mind.

Derivatives

hide and seek v. to play at hide-and-seek.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [verb (intransitive)] > play hide-and-seek
hide and seek1830
1830 Ld. Tennyson Mermaid in Poems 29 We would run to and fro, and hide and seek, On the broad seawolds i' the crimson shells.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 46 Some hid and sought In the orange thickets.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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