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单词 mumblety-peg
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Definition of mumblety-peg in English:

mumblety-peg

noun ˈmʌmb(ə)ltiˈməmb(ə)ltēˌpeɡ
mass nounUS
  • A game in which each player in turn throws a knife or pointed stick from a series of positions, continuing until it fails to stick in the ground.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Kids played hopscotch and mumblety-peg in the dirt and built campfires in the summer, but Christmas was her favorite holiday when they cut down the tree and roasted goose for dinner.
    • Some of the sailors played mumblety-peg with their knives (or knives they'd taken from Batcha's kitchen - it angered him so) or played duck and drake with small ice-cold stones they could find beneath the snow.
    • For those who have never heard of it, you play mumblety-peg by balancing the tip of your jack-knife on your palm, or index finger, or other appendage, and then flipping it in such a way that it sticks in the ground.
    • I also remember taking our scout knives to school and playing mumblety-peg at recess with other eight and nine year old boys.

Origin

Early 17th century: also in the form mumble the peg, from mumble (sense 2 of the verb), from the requirement of the game that an unsuccessful player withdraw a peg from the ground using the mouth.

 
 

Definition of mumblety-peg in US English:

mumblety-peg

(also mumbletypeg)
nounˈməmb(ə)ltēˌpeɡ
US
  • A game in which each player in turn throws a knife or pointed stick from a series of positions, continuing until it fails to stick in the ground.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of the sailors played mumblety-peg with their knives (or knives they'd taken from Batcha's kitchen - it angered him so) or played duck and drake with small ice-cold stones they could find beneath the snow.
    • I also remember taking our scout knives to school and playing mumblety-peg at recess with other eight and nine year old boys.
    • Kids played hopscotch and mumblety-peg in the dirt and built campfires in the summer, but Christmas was her favorite holiday when they cut down the tree and roasted goose for dinner.
    • For those who have never heard of it, you play mumblety-peg by balancing the tip of your jack-knife on your palm, or index finger, or other appendage, and then flipping it in such a way that it sticks in the ground.

Origin

Early 17th century: also in the form mumble the peg, from mumble (sense 2 of the verb), from the requirement of the game that an unsuccessful player withdraw a peg from the ground using the mouth.

 
 
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