Crossword-Solution: BOPEEP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bopeep | n. | The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BOPEEP | anagram | PEEPBO |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOPEEP (5)
But my opinion is that if you don’t live with him, you had better live without him, and not go shilly-shallying and playing bopeep.
STOKES COMPANY for "Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt," from _Wolfville Nights_, by Alfred Henry Lewis; "The Bohemians of Boston," "The Purple Cow" and "Nonsense Verses," from _The Burgess Nonsense Book_, by Gelett Burgess, and "My Grandmother's Turkey-tail Fan," "Little Bopeep and Little Boy Blue" and "My Sweetheart," by Samuel Minturn Peck.
The clouds on which the saints repose are opaque and solid; cherubs in countless multitudes, a swarm of merry children, crawl about upon these feather-beds of vapour, creep between the legs of the apostles, and 155play at bopeep behind their shoulders.
There was an old woman of Leeds, Who spent all her time in good deeds; She worked for the poor Till her fingers were sore, This pious old woman of Leeds! Margery Mutton-pie and Johnny Bopeep, They met together in Gracechurch-Street; In and out, in and out, over the way, Oh! says Johnny, 'tis chop-nose day.
The little Bopeep policy of "Let them alone, and they'll all come home Wagging their tails behind them" was certainly tried long enough with conspirators who had shown unmistakably that they desired nothing so much as the continuance of peace, especially when it was all on one side, and who would never have given the Government the great advantage of being attacked in Fort Sumter, had they not supposed they were dealing with men who could not be cuffed into resistance.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 101 times in crossword archives (1949–2024).