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stickfrog

stickfrog noun: a blunt knife.

Noun

stickfrog (countable and uncountable, plural stickfrogs)

  1. A blunt knife
    • A bit arter, I hears a jarring, — up goes I ; she comes at me with a knife — only a stickfrog it's sartin, but it's a knife — and a knife's a knife, all the world over; but howsomever that says nothing.1825, Cruikshank, “Conjugal Delights”, in The Spirit of the public journals, page 188
  2. A game similar to mumblety peg
    • All day long (when we weren't gathering dog's-tongue) we'd swing through the cypresses on the rope vines, and if it rained we'd huddle beneath an umbrella tree and play stickfrog.1960 July, James Hurst, “The Scarlet Ibis”, in Atlantic Monthly, page 142

Forms of stickfrog

pluralstickfrogs

Questions about stickfrog

What does stickfrog mean?
Stickfrog means a blunt knife.
What part of speech is stickfrog?
Stickfrog is a noun.
What is the plural of stickfrog?
The plural of stickfrog is stickfrogs.

Words near stickfrog in the dictionary

  1. stickfighter
  2. stickfighters
  3. stickfighting
  4. stickfigure
  5. stickfigures
  6. stickfrog
  7. stickful
  8. stickfuls
  9. stickhandle
  10. stickhandled
  11. stickhandler

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