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mumbly-peg

mumbly-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 mumbly-peg

What is mumbly-peg the alternative form of?
Mumbly-peg is the alternative form of mumblety peg.

Words near mumbly-peg in the dictionary

  1. mumblingly
  2. mumblings
  3. mumbly
  4. mumbly joe
  5. mumbly joes
  6. mumbly-peg
  7. mumbo jumbo
  8. mumbo jumbos
  9. mumbo sauce
  10. mumbo-jumbery
  11. mumbo-jumbo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mumbly-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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