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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. (uncountable) A game similar to mumblety peg.
    • The others could tell stories, play stick frog or such quiet games, but there was to be no noise to disturb the wonderful speaking going on upstairs for the betterment of Wayne County schools.2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 61
    • To complicate things, in stick frog, one had to hold onto his right ear with his left hand and hold the knife in his right hand while extending his right hand through the loop formed by his left with one toss.2006, Mac McQuagge, The Color of Angels, →ISBN, page 174
  2. (countable) A blunt, crudely-made knife.
    • One would scarcely think of hardening a quill in order to enable it to compete with a steel nib in some of the least desirable qualities, though one often wishes one could accomplish the reverse process, and soften or supple a steel 'stick frog' so as to give it the elasticity of the grey goose...1985 October, Seymour Howard, “The steel pen and the modern line of beauty”, in Technology and Culture, volume 26, number 4

Forms of stick frog

pluralstick frogs
alternative formstickfrog
alternative formstick-frog

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 fight
  2. stick fighter
  3. stick fighting
  4. stick figure
  5. stick figures
  6. stick frog
  7. stick frogs
  8. stick in one's gizzard
  9. stick in one’s ass
  10. stick in someone's craw
  11. stick in someone's gullet

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