Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game in which players toss a jackknife in various prescribed ways, with the object being to make the blade stick firmly into the ground.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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A boy on an idle Saturday, playing a solitary game of mumblety-peg in the shade of a cottonwood.
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Two boys (who might be Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn) play mumblety-peg with pocketknives.
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After lunch I was sitting on top of Bald Hill with Hilliard Wood, Mehetable Hughes, and Ruth Ann Catlin, playing mumblety-peg with my jackknife.
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We dallied too long at a best-of-seven series of mumblety-peg by the Great Rock.
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After lunch I was sitting on top of Bald Hill with Hilliard Wood, Mehetable Hughes, and Ruth Ann Catlin, playing mumblety-peg with my jackknife.
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After lunch I was sitting on top of Bald Hill with Hilliard Wood, Mehetable Hughes, and Ruth Ann Catlin, playing mumblety-peg with my jackknife.
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We dallied too long at a best-of-seven series of mumblety-peg by the Great Rock.
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We dallied too long at a best-of-seven series of mumblety-peg by the Great Rock.
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Gus had taught two of the boys to play mumblety-peg. Matilda and Long Bill had taught them simple card games.
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He devoted his leisure to complicated games of mumblety-peg with the Rainey boys.
oroboros commented on the word mumblety-peg
Also mumblypeg.
July 26, 2009