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mumbledypeg

mumbledypeg 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 mumbledypeg

What is mumbledypeg the alternative form of?
Mumbledypeg is the alternative form of mumblety peg.

Words near mumbledypeg in the dictionary

  1. mumble-matins
  2. mumble-the-peg
  3. Mumblebone Plain
  4. mumblecore
  5. mumbled
  6. mumbledypeg
  7. mumblement
  8. mumblements
  9. mumblenews
  10. mumblenewses
  11. mumbler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mumbledypeg (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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