单词 | hide-and-seek |
释义 | hide-and-seekn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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