HIDE AND SEEK

Definition: HIDE AND SEEK

HIDE AND SEEK

1. A play of children, in which some hide themselves, and others seek them. --Swift.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Amusement

Leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag;

Avoidance

Lead one a dance, lead one a pretty dance; throw off the scent, play at hide and seek.

Concealment

Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.

Deception

Cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses; (steal); conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon.

Playing hide and seek (MOONCHILD; performing artist: King Crimson)

When we played hide and seek (Girl Next Door; performing artist: Musiq Soulchild)

You play hide and seek (Straight Up; performing artist: Paula Abdul)

Hide and Seek (1972)

Second Sight II: Hide and Seek (2000)

Hide and Seek (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Daisy's Hide and Seek : A Lift the Flap Book (reference)

• Dotty the Ladybug Plays Hide and Seek (Baby Bug Books) (reference)

• Hide and Seek (reference)

  (more book examples)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods

• Hide and Seek Wall Border (reference)

• Hooded Towel Set - Carter's JOY Hide And Seek (reference)

• Lamp - Carter's JOY Hide And Seek (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

And last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and seek in my hair.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "HIDE AND SEEK": play at hide and seek. Additional references.

Albanian

kukafshehthi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لعبة الغمضية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

криеница (hy spy). (various references)

Czech

hra na schovávanou (hide find seek). (various references)

Finnish

olla sokkosilla (play hide and seek). (various references)

French

cache-cache. (various references)

German

versteckspiel (peekaboo). (various references)

Greek 

κρυφτό παιχνίδι. (various references)

Hungarian

bújócska (hide-and-seek, peek-a-boo, whoop). (various references)

Italian

nascondino. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� れ�"坊 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かくれ�"ぼう, かくれ�"ぼ. (various references)

Norwegian

gjemsel. (various references)

Pig Latin

idehay anday eeksay

Romanian

de-a v-aţi ascunselea (hy spy). (various references)

Russian 

прятки (hide-and-seek), игра в прятки (hy spy, hy-spy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

žmurke (hy spy, peekaboo). (various references)

Spanish

escondite (cache, concealment, hide, hide out, hide-and-seek, hideaway, hide-out, hiding place, lurk, stash), escondidas. (various references)

Swedish

kurragömma (hide-and-seek). (various references)

Turkish

saklambaç. (various references)

Turkmen 

bukullym (hide and seek (game)). (various references)

Ukrainian

гра у хованки. (various references)

hoekje. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: skinhead.

-4 letters: aniseed, dandies, dasheen, deadens, deashed, enskied, hankies, kaddish, keddahs, kneaded, shanked, sheened, sheenie, skeined, sneaked.

-5 letters: aedine, akenes, danish, dashed, deaden, deaned, dedans, denied, denies, desand, dienes, dinked, dished, disked, eddies, handed, hanked, hankie, headed, heeded, hidden, indeed, keddah, keened, khadis, khedas, kinase, kneads, needed, sadden, sained, sanded, sandhi, seeded, seined.

+4 letters: kindheartedness.