英语词汇“mumblety-peg”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mumblety-peg

/ˈmʌmb(ə)lti

noun [mass noun] chiefly 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.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.
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.

单词	mumblety-peg
释义	mumblety-peg /ˈmʌmb(ə)lti / noun [mass noun] chiefly 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.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. 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.
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