单词 | mumbletypeg |
释义 | mumbletypeg /mum"beuhl tee peg'/, n. a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions. Also, mumbledepeg, mumbledypeg /mum"beuhl dee peg'/, mumble peg, mumble-the-peg /mum"beuhl dheuh peg'/, mumblety-peg, mumbly-peg /mum"blee peg'/. [1620-30; from phrase mumble the peg (see MUMBLE); so named because the losing player was formerly required to pull a peg from the ground with his or her teeth] |
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