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mumblety-peg

Syllabification: (mum·ble·ty-peg)

(also mumbletypeg)
Definition of mumblety-peg

noun

  • 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.

Origin:

early 17th century: also in the form mumble the peg, from mumble in the late 16th-century sense 'bite as if with toothless gums', from the requirement of the game that an unsuccessful player withdraw a peg from the ground using the mouth

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