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stick-frog

stick-frog noun: a game similar to mumblety peg.

Noun

stick-frog (countable and uncountable, plural stick-frogs)

  1. A game similar to mumblety peg.
    • He would play three handed seven up with Bob Dixon and Jack Stone -- listen with seeming delight to the rickety verses of Joe Delton, or indulge in a game of stick-frog with the skillful John Carter.2010, Kittrell J. Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler, →ISBN, page 94
  2. A blunt knife
    • Put up your Stick-Frogs, good Mr. Devils, an't please Your Worships, and let us converse civilly ; we are honest, well-meaning Men, and love Peace better than War, as well as our Betters.1733, Penelope Aubin, The Humours of the Masqueraders, page 41

Forms of stick-frog

pluralstick-frogs

Questions about stick-frog

What does stick-frog mean?
Stick-frog means a game similar to mumblety peg.
What part of speech is stick-frog?
Stick-frog is a noun.
What is the plural of stick-frog?
The plural of stick-frog is stick-frogs.

Words near stick-frog in the dictionary

  1. stick-and-pokes
  2. stick-at-itiveness
  3. stick-fighter
  4. stick-fighters
  5. stick-fighting
  6. stick-frog
  7. stick-in-the-mud
  8. stick-in-the-muds
  9. stick-nest rat
  10. stick-nest rats
  11. stick-on

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