Definition of Mumble-the-peg

1. Noun. A game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground.

Exact synonyms: Mumblety-peg
Generic synonyms: Child's Game

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mumble-the-peg

multizonal
multizone
multocular
multum
multums
multungulate
multure
multured
multurer
multurers
multures
multuring
mum
mum's the word
mumble
mumble-the-peg (current term)
mumblecore
mumbled
mumblenews
mumblenewses
mumbler
mumblers
mumbles
mumbleth
mumblety-peg
mumblety peg
mumbletypeg
mumbling
mumblingly
mumblings

Literary usage of Mumble-the-peg

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Artists of America: a series of biographical sketches of American by Charles Edwards Lester (1846)
"Among others is ' Mumble the Peg,' which was commissioned of Inman a few years ago, and engraved for Mr. Carey's favorite Annual. And although the peculiar ..."

2. The United Service (1889)
"The thing took, and in the afternoon almost all the prisoners were playing "Mumble-the-Peg." From this " Leap-Frog" and many other games and amusements were ..."

3. Southern Literary Messenger (1861)
"Then I repeated My Series of Noises in a more earnest manner than at first, played another dime of mumble-the-peg, and felt a Pain for the want of Marbles. ..."

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