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单词 pegity
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pegityn.

Brit. /ˈpɛɡəti/, U.S. /ˈpɛɡədi/
Forms: 1900s– peggitty, 1900s– peggity, 1900s– peggotty, 1900s– peggoty, 1900s– pegity, 1900s– pegotty. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: peg n.1
Etymology: Arbitrarily extended form of peg n.1 Compare -ity suffix.With the forms peggotty, peggoty, pegotty perhaps compare the name of the character Clara Peggotty in Dickens's David Copperfield (1850).
A children's board game in which each player in turn places a peg in a pegboard with the aim of completing a row of five pegs. Cf. gobang n.Pegity is a proprietary name in the U.S.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > children's board games
Snakes and Ladders1907
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1925 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 Mar. 996/2 Parker Bros... Pegity. Game of the Type of ‘Go-Bang’. Played with Pegs, for Adults and Children.
1958 M. Stewart Nine Coaches Waiting iv. 45 I brought you a game..called Peggitty.
1974 P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 60 Tribesmen..played their stone-age version of peggoty in noisy groups.
1993 Sci. Amer. Sept. 118/2 ‘What games do you have in mind?’ ‘Five-in-a-row’, Bumps said decisively. ‘Otherwise known as go-moku, go-bang, pegotty or pegity’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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