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mumbly peg

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mum⋅ble⋅ty⋅peg

[muhm-buhl-tee-peg]
–noun
a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
Also, mum⋅ble⋅de⋅peg, mum⋅ble⋅dy⋅peg [muhm-buhl-dee-peg] , mumble peg, mum⋅ble-the-peg [muhm-buhl-thuh-peg] , mum⋅ble⋅ty-peg, mum⋅bly-peg [muhm-blee-peg] .


Origin:
1620–30; from phrase mumble the peg (see mumble ); so named because the losing player was formerly required to pull a peg from the ground with his or her teeth
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