mumblety peg
See also: mumbletypeg
English
Alternative forms
- mumbledypeg
- mumbletypeg
- mumble-the-peg
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmʌmb(ə)ltiˌpɛɡ/
Noun
mumblety peg (uncountable)
- (US) Any of several forms of a game in which a jack-knife is thrown so that it sticks into the ground close to the player's feet.
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 296:
- Others played mumbletypeg with rusty stolen jackknives, or simply drowsed in the sunlight, waking now and then to exchange their sorry belongings [...].
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 17, p. 94,
- Bailey played mumbledypeg with the older boys around the chinaberry tree […]
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 296:
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