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mumble-the-peg Now U.S.
Also 9 mumble-peg, and erron. 7– mumbledepeg, 7– etc. mumblety-peg, 9 mumble-te-peg.
A boys' game in which each player in turn throws a knife from a series of positions, continuing until he fails to make the blade stick in the ground. Hence mumblety-pegging vbl. n.
The unsuccessful player is compelled to draw out of the ground with his teeth a peg which the others have driven in with a certain number of blows with the handle of the knife. In Antrim the game is said to have been played with a fork instead of a knife (see E.D.D.). In Scotland it is locally called ‘knifie’.
1627W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving Prol. 5 Nor scourgetop, nor Trusse, nor Leape-frog, nor Nine holes, nor Mumble the pegge. a1652Brome New Acad. ii. Wks. 1873 II. 33 At Mumbledepeg I will so firk her. 1883E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. Jan. 201/1 It'll take more mumble-te-peg 'n you're worth, I reckon, to pull it out! 1891A. Welcker Wild West 14 He..would play any game whatever, even down to ‘mumble-peg’, if money was at stake. 1895Century Mag. Aug. 543/1 Those mysterious and irresistible forces which..bind all boyish hearts to play mumble-the-peg at the due time. 1931Sun (Baltimore) 18 Feb. 8/7 In my boyhood the spring was ushered in by children rolling hoops, spinning tops, skipping rope, playing mumblety-pegs. 1932Ibid. 17 Sept. 10/7 The Park will attempt next week to match this week's golf tournament with a grand quoit pitchin' and mumblety-peggin' contest. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling vii. 64 Jody and Fodder-wing lost interest in the talk and went into a corner to play mumbledepeg. Ma Baxter would never have allowed pocket knives to be flipped into her clean smooth floors. 1963T. Pynchon V. x. 298 They found two more musicians playing mumbledypeg with clam knives. |