peep-bo

The effects can be clearly heard when playing simple games, such as peep-bo or round-and-round-the-garden.

On language and colic DC 2010

The effects can be clearly heard when playing simple games, such as peep-bo or round-and-round-the-garden.

Archive 2010-01-01 DC 2010

It knew none of the games that the magpie invented save one, and that was a kind of aerial “peep-bo” to which the brainier bird lured it by means of a prize.

My Tropic Isle 2003

There are many towns in holes and trenches of Europe which you can thus play "peep-bo" with if you will come at them walking.

First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911

I had been playing peep-bo with the unseen, and the tables were turned.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

Human nature is born of the pain of a woman; human nature plays at peep-bo when it is two and at cricket when it is twelve; human nature earns its living and desires the other sex and dies.

The Victorian Age in Literature 1905

The man was half child playing peep-bo! and half spider waiting for a fly.

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

It just seems as if Mother Earth had become young again, and was tossing her babies up to the summer sky, and the wind played hide-and-seek, or peep-bo, or some other ridiculous game, with them, and made the summer babies as glad and as mischievous as himself.

My War Experiences in Two Continents Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon 1890

Her smooth, pink-and-white cheeks and unwinking eyes contrasted vividly with his seamed yellowness and blinking grin; for a long time he coquetted at her, and played peep-bo, without disturbing her gravity, making humorous side comments to the on-lookers meanwhile.

Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

D'ye think I don't know when the Lord 'ides' is face behind the clouds playin 'peep-bo for a bit, and lets the devil' ave it all 'is own way?

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889