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单词 king-by-your-leave
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king-by-your-leaven.

Brit. /ˌkɪŋbʌɪjɔːˈliːv/, /ˌkɪŋbʌɪjəˈliːv/, U.S. /ˌkɪŋbaɪjərˈliv/
Forms: see king n. and by prep. and adv. and your pron. and adj. and leave n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: king n., by your leave at leave n.1 Phrases 1a.
Etymology: < king n. + by your leave at leave n.1 Phrases 1a.
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.
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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).
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