Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. 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.
- n. a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground
Etymologies
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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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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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.
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He sat in the shade of the wagon all day and taught the two young girls how to play mumblety-peg. Clara looked out at them occasionally from the upper windows—there seemed no harm in the man.
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They were playing mumblety-peg at the edge of the clearing while some younger boys watched.
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He sat in the shade of the wagon all day and taught the two young girls how to play mumblety-peg.
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Of course, I don't play mumblety-peg any more, but, on the Moon, it's a right good game.
oroboros commented on the word mumblety-peg
Also mumblypeg.
July 26, 2009