单词 | king-by-your-leave |
释义 | king-by-your-leaven. Now historical. A game resembling hide-and-seek, in which all players hide apart from one (usually blindfolded) seeker and the first player to return undetected to the base is seeker next time. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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- 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Kinge by your leaue, a playe that children haue, where one sytting blyndefolde in the midle, bydeth so tyll the rest haue hydden them selues, and then he going to seeke them, if any get his place in the meane space, that same is kynge in his roume. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Abomba Where children playing hide themselves, as at a play called king by your leave. a1660 N. Bacon Hist. & Polit. Disc. Laws & Govt. Eng. (1689) xii. 67 Under pretension of holding possession of that Kingdom, he lost England: and whilst he plays his game in that Country, another plays King by your leave, in this, and steps into the Throne. 1859 Spectator 4 June 587/2 Bomba is the name of children's play in Italy, a kind of prisoner's base, or what used formerly to be called in England, ‘King by your leave’. 1884 W. Black Judith Shakespeare iii. 29 Is it anything worse than the children..having a game of ‘King by your leave’? 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 7 The Elizabethans played..‘King by your Leave’ (a form of running-home Hide and Seek). 2009 R. P. Carlisle Encycl. Play Today's Soc. I. 286/2 The game King By Your Leave or Old Shewe featured a blindfolded seeker, known as the king, who was replaced by the first hider who could run back to the base. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1572 |
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