HIDE-AND-SEEK
INTERJECTIONS
1952 ► ALL NOT HID CAN’T HIDE OVER in the children’s game of hide-and-seek, a phrase called out by the seeker (‘it’) before or after he has caught the first hider → Amer. dial.
1966 ► BEE BEE BUMBLEBEE, ALL COME IN FREE in the game of hide and seek: when the first person in hiding is caught, the player who is ‘it’ calls this out to others → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1598 ► ALL HID the children’s game of hide-and-seek → obs.
1822 ► HOOP AND HIDE → WHOOP AND HIDE hide and seek → Amer. dial.
1825 ► KEERIE-OAM the game of hide-and-seek → Sc. obs.
1850 ► HIDE-AND-COOP hide-and-seek → US
1852 ► KEE-HOI → KEEHOY → KEY-HOY the game of hide-and-seek; so named from the call used to summon the searchers → Sc.
1873 ► DALE the base or ‘home’ in hide-and-seek → Sc.
1885 ► HEADY-PEEP the game of hide and seek → Eng. dial.
1886 ► BICKY the game of hide and seek → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1895 ► LOCK-EYE the game of hide and seek → Amer. dial.
1901 ► KEEK-BOGLE hide-and-seek → Sc. (Bk.)
1902 ► JACKY the game of hide and seek → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► LAMB-PIE-SOTE-IT the game of hide and seek → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MEEPY-MOPPY the game of ‘hide and seek’ → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1908 ► HIDE-AND-GO-SEEK hide-and-seek
1911 ► BOGILL-ABOUT-THE-BUSH → BOGLE-ABOUT-THE-BUSH the game of hide and seek → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOGLE a game of hide and seek → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOGLE-ABOUT-THE-STACKS the game of hide and seek played in a full stackyard (a farmyard or enclosure where stacks of hay, straw, or grain in sheaf are stored) → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOGLE-CATCH-THE-FAIRY the game of hide and seek → Sc. (Bk.)
1915 ► WHOOPIN’ HIDE hide and seek → Amer. dial.
1916 ► SIXTY the game of hide and seek → Amer. dial.
1927 ► LARKIE the game of hide and seek → Sc.
1940 ► HOOPY HIDE → WHOOPY HIDE hide and seek → Amer. dial.
1965 ► HOOP-HIDE hide and seek → Amer. dial.
1965 ► HOOT-AND-HIDE hide and seek → Amer. dial.
1967 ► BLIND in the game of hide-and-seek: the place where the seeker waits while the other players hide → Amer. dial.
1967 ► BLIND POST in the game of hide-and-seek: the place where the seeker waits while the other players hide → Amer. dial.
1967 ► MAY HIDE the children’s hiding game, hide-and-seek → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1905 ► MOP in the game of hide-and-seek, the one who stands with his eyes covered until the signal comes to seek the others → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1906 ► HI-SPIER the player who is ‘it’ in the game of hide-and-seek → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1887 ► BICKY in the game of hide and seek: to hide one’s eyes in order not to see where the others go to conceal themselves → Eng. dial.
1982 ► BLIND in the game of hide-and-seek: to go to the ‘blind’ (see noun), and close one’s eyes → Amer. dial.
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