Word info

I spy

Noun

Meaning

(games) A game where players have to guess what one can see, based on the initial letter of the object.
- Let's play I spy! I spy with my little eye something beginning with W.- Is it a watering-can?
Hypernym: guessing game

(games, archaic) A children's game of hide and seek, so called from the cry when one is found.

I-spy (uncountable)

Alternative spelling of I spy

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

I-spy

Examples

As I watch him I spy the gentleman I danced with sitting beyond, all snuggled arm-in-arm with his handsome partner. Source: Internet

Oooh is that Nigella's ham I spy there? Source: Internet

When I spy our cheeky 11-year-old co-participant Nathaniel running amok and trying to decapitate guide Cheylee in the mangroves, I know we are in for a fun day. Source: Internet

Still, every time I go to the grocery, I spy opalescent jugs of drinking water lurking in fellow shopper’s carts. Source: Internet

This cowboy is part of an "I Spy" game, and once stood in front of the Last Chance Saloon, a longtime Grayslake restaurant and bar. Source: Internet

The treats (USD3) are beside an outpost of Carpigiani Gelato University, Bologna’s famed frozen dessert school, where I spy a sorbet class in action. Source: Internet

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