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mumble-the-peg

mumble-the-peg is the alternative form of mumblety peg.

Meaning of mumblety peg

Noun

mumblety peg (uncountable)

  1. (US) Any of several forms of a game in which a jack-knife is thrown so that it sticks into the ground close to the player's feet.
    • The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming.1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer, Detective

Questions about mumble-the-peg

What is mumble-the-peg the alternative form of?
Mumble-the-peg is the alternative form of mumblety peg.

Words near mumble-the-peg in the dictionary

  1. mumble
  2. mumble rap
  3. mumble-bee
  4. mumble-bees
  5. mumble-matins
  6. mumble-the-peg
  7. Mumblebone Plain
  8. mumblecore
  9. mumbled
  10. mumbledypeg
  11. mumblement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mumble-the-peg (page history and authors); mumblety peg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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