mumblety peg
UK/ˈmʌmb(ə)ltiˌpɛɡ/
mumblety peg noun: 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.
Noun
mumblety peg (uncountable)
- 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
- Others played mumbletypeg with rusty stolen jackknives, or simply drowsed in the sunlight, waking now and then to exchange their sorry belongings […].1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 296
Forms of mumblety peg
| alternative form | mumbledypeg |
|---|---|
| alternative form | mumbletypeg |
| alternative form | mumblety-peg |
| alternative form | mumble-the-peg |
| alternative form | mumbly-peg |
Origin of mumblety peg
Originally from mumble + the + peg.
Questions about mumblety peg
- What does mumblety peg mean?
- Mumblety peg means 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.
- What part of speech is mumblety peg?
- Mumblety peg is a noun.
- How do you pronounce mumblety peg?
- Mumblety peg is pronounced /ˈmʌmb(ə)ltiˌpɛɡ/ (UK).
Words near mumblety peg in the dictionary
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