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peg away

peg away verb: to keep working (at something).

Verb

peg away (third-person singular simple present pegs away, present participle pegging away, simple past and past participle pegged away)

  1. (informal) To keep working (at something).
    • ‘Art's the only thing I care for, I'm willing to give my whole life to it. It's only a question of sticking to it and pegging away.’1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage
    • You are tired now and you find it hard, but you peg away.1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94
  2. (archaic, slang) To depart hastily; peg it; scram.

peg away meaning in Malayalam

peg away in Malayalam

slog away, work hard, plod away
കഠിനമായദ്ധ്വാനിക്കുക, കഠിനപരിശ്രമം ചെയ്യുക, അത്യദ്ധ്വാനം ചെയ്യുക, പ്രയത്നിക്കുക, ആയാസിക്കുക, വാശിയോടെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക

Forms of peg away

third-person singular presentpegs away
present participlepegging away
past participlepegged away
pastpegged away

Questions about peg away

What does peg away mean?
Peg away means to keep working (at something).
What is peg away in Malayalam?
Peg away in Malayalam is കഠിനമായദ്ധ്വാനിക്കുക, കഠിനപരിശ്രമം ചെയ്യുക, അത്യദ്ധ്വാനം ചെയ്യുക. See Peg away meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is peg away?
Peg away is a verb.
What is the past tense of peg away?
The past tense of peg away is pegged away.

Words near peg away in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peg away (page history and authors); peg away (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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