mumblety peg
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mumblety peg
- /ˈmʌmb(ə)ltiˌpɛɡ/ UK
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Originally from mumble + the + peg.
noun mumbledypeg · mumbletypeg · mumblety-peg · mumble-the-peg · mumbly-peg
- Any of several forms of a game in which a jack-knife is thrown so that it sticks into the ground close to the player's feet. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming.
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title = {mumblety peg},
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