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ˈpeg-top, pegtop
[f. peg n.1 + top n.]
1. a. A pear-shaped wooden spinning-top, with a metal pin or peg forming the point, spun by the rapid uncoiling of a string wound about it.
[1740Dyche & Pardon, Peg..also the name of a small piece of steel or iron put into childrens toys, called castle⁓tops.] 1788Massachusetts Spy 3 Apr. 4/3 Children's Books... Memoirs of a Pegtop. By the Author of, The Adventures of a Pincushion. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. iv. 341 The peg-top, I believe, must be ranked among the modern inventions. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Baby's Debut iii, Quite cross, a bit of string I beg, And tie it to his peg-top's peg. 1834H. Caunter Orient. Ann. viii. 110 Here we saw several Hindoo children spinning tops, precisely like the common peg-top used by children in Europe. 1887Jessopp Arcady viii. 238 If there are two men in my parish who can spin a peg-top, I don't know the second. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 171 Chieftains, three of them abreast, on foot Strut like peg-tops. 1978Country Life 14 Dec. 2103/2 Tops: humming tops, peg tops, optical tops, gyroscopes.
b. A game of spinning peg-tops.
1803[see pea-shooter s.v. pea1 7]. 1828Boy's Own Bk. 12 Regular games at peg-top are played... The object of each player being to split the tops of his companions. 1841T. A. Trollope Summ. W. France I. viii. 122 The pupils and their ecclesiastical masters began playing peg-top together. 1885New Bk. Sports 313 Peg-top, like marbles, appears to have very much gone out in London. 1931P. Guedalla Duke i. iv. 22 Nor do the martial virtues thrive upon a simple diet of peg-top and battledore.
2. pl. = peg-top trousers: see 3.
1858Punch 15 May 202/2 The fashion of trowsers improves, if anything, in ridicule. Henceforth pegtops are split. 1859Farrar Julian Home xx, Cut-away coat, and mauve-coloured pegtops. 1862H. Kingsley Ravenshoe lxvi, Better than pegtops and a black bowler hat, which strike no awe into the beholders.
3. attrib. Having or suggesting the shape of a peg-top, as peg-top form, peg-top vase, peg-top whisker; peg-top pants, = peg-top trousers; peg-top skirt, a skirt that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom; peg-top trousers, a form of trousers very wide in the hips and narrow at the ankles, in fashion c 1858–65.
1858Trevelyan Cambr. Dionysia, Nor picked a pocket; nor worn peg-top trousers. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 415 The much-laughed-at pegtop trousers seem to be, in fact, the proper shape. 1894Daily News 12 Oct. 7/3 The form of trousers inclines to change to the peg-top style. 1898Ibid. 17 Jan. 8/6 ‘The early sixties’—or ‘Crinoline and peg-top trouser period’. 1902Daily Chron. 26 Apr. 8/3 The sleeve..shows a new pattern, called..‘the peg-top’, which is pleated above, and at the wrist..is banded with taffetas, fixed with buttons. 1917Times 24 Jan. 9/5, I noticed yesterday in the leading papers the leading couturiers announced the ‘new peg-top skirt, cut on most becoming lines’. 1923E. B. White Let. Feb. (1976) 63 A stunning suit—real western cut with peg top pants and everything. 1956Punch 15 Aug. 190/3 This Autumn Collection..emphasizing a belted natural waist-line, short peg-top skirts, and a wrapped-up look. 1970Daily Tel. 23 July 15 Pegtop pants were Patou's big contribution to yesterday's fashion scene. 1972J. Minifie Homesteader xvii. 146 The baggy end of a drummer's blue peg-top pants. 1975G. Howell In Vogue 222 Schiaparelli's slim silhouette with..peg-top skirt.
Hence ˈpegtopped ppl. a., having peg-top trousers; pegtopped skirt = peg-top skirt.
1861Illustr. Lond. News 15 June 549/1 Two white-hatted and pegtopped ineffables. 1959News Chron. 22 July 3/3 Gently fitted jackets over stiffened pegtopped skirts. 1973Country Life 8 Mar. 632/3 If this peg-topped, tapered, pencil skirt does catch on there will be resounding cheers from the girdle manufacturers. |