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pegging

/ˈpɛɡɪŋ/

pegging noun: the act of fastening with a peg. Also the present participle and gerund of peg.

Noun

pegging (countable and uncountable, plural peggings)

  1. The act of fastening with a peg.
  2. Pegs collectively.
  3. The activity of artificial climbing on crags and in quarries outside the main mountain areas.
  4. The act of anal penetration of a man by someone, usually a woman, wearing a strap-on dildo.
    • It is not a spoiler to say the evening does not go well, or as predicted. Think Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with extra pegging.2026 July 3, Catherine Shoard, “‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  5. Determined perseverance in work; pegging away.
  6. (dated) A thrashing.

Also used as

pegging is also the present participle and gerund of peg.

Forms of pegging

pluralpeggings

Words formed from pegging

Phrases with pegging

Words that rhyme with pegging

Questions about pegging

What does pegging mean?
Pegging means the act of fastening with a peg.
What part of speech is pegging?
Pegging is a noun.
How do you pronounce pegging?
Pegging is pronounced /ˈpɛɡɪŋ/.
What is the plural of pegging?
The plural of pegging is peggings.

Words near pegging in the dictionary

  1. peggees
  2. pegger
  3. peggers
  4. Peggie
  5. peggies
  6. pegging
  7. pegging away
  8. pegging back
  9. pegging down
  10. pegging it
  11. pegging out

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