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peggotty|ˈpɛgətɪ|
Also peggitty, peggoty, pegity, and with capital initial.
[Fanciful extension of peg n.1]
A children's board game in which four players in turn place pegs in holes, the object being to complete a row of five pegs.
Pegity is registered in the U.S. as a proprietary name.
1925Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 Mar. 996/2 Parker Bros... Pegity. Game of the Type of ‘Go-Bang’. Played with Pegs, for Adults and Children. 1929Games & Toys July 66/1 Pegity..is one of the most interesting board games ever devised. 1950Oxf. Jun. Encycl. IX. 73/1 Peggotty, a very simple modern game on the Noughts and Crosses principle, is played by four players who take it in turn to stick coloured wooden pegs into holes in the board, the winner being the first to get five pegs in a row. 1958M. Stewart Nine Coaches Waiting iv. 45, I brought you a game..called Peggitty. 1974P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 60 Tribesmen..played their stone-age version of peggoty in noisy groups. |