bopeep

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Noun

bopeep - a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!

peekaboo

child's game - a game enjoyed by children

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At length, as I leaned with my elbow on the bench one day, it ran up my clothes, and along my sleeve, and round and round the paper which held my dinner, while I kept the latter close, and dodged and played at bopeep with it; and when at last I held still a piece of cheese between my thumb and finger, it came and nibbled it, sitting in my hand, and afterward cleaned its face and paws, like a fly, and walked away.

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Florianne Jimenez, better known to her immediate family as 'Bopeep' though she prefers the cooler-sounding 'Bo' these days, recently presented a paper at the 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Conference which won for her the Gerard A.

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(33) Together, "scuffling" and "bopeep" imply the kind of sibling play we find suggested in Marlowe's allusions to Aesop (535-36).