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noun
1.
a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
2.
Informal. a leg, either real or wooden: still on his pegs at 99.
3.
a notch or degree: to come down a peg.
4.
an occasion, basis, or reason: a peg to hang a grievance on.
5.
EXPANDAlso called pin. Music. a pin of wood or metal in the neck of a stringed instrument that may be turned in its socket to adjust a string's tension.
verb (used with object)
11.
to drive or insert a peg into.
12.
to fasten with or as with pegs.
13.
to mark with pegs.
14.
to strike or pierce with or as with a peg.
15.
EXPANDto keep (the commodity price, exchange rate, etc.) at a set level, as by manipulation or law.
16.
Informal. to throw (a ball).
17.
Journalism. to base (an article, feature story, etc.) upon; justify by (usually followed by on): The feature on the chief of police was pegged on the riots.
18.
COLLAPSEInformal. to identify: to peg someone as a good prospect.
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
verb (used without object)
19.
to work or continue persistently or energetically: to peg away at a homework assignment.
20.
Informal. to throw a ball.
21.
Croquet. to strike a peg, as in completing a game.
adjective
Idiom22.
Also, pegged. tapered toward the bottom of the leg: peg trousers.
23.
take down a peg, to reduce the pride or arrogance of; humble: I guess that'll take him down a peg!
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English pegge (noun), peggen (v.) < Middle Dutch
1400–50; late Middle English pegge (noun), peggen (v.) < Middle Dutch
Related forms
peg·less, adjective
peg·like, adjective
re·peg, verb, -pegged, -peg·ging.
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peg
1440, from M.Du. pegge "peg," a common Low Ger. word of uncertain origin (cf. Low Ger. pigge "peg," M.Du. pegel "little knob used as a mark"). The verb meaning "fasten with or as if on a peg" is first recorded 1598, from the noun. Slang sense of "identify, classify" first recorded 1920. To be a square
EXPANDpeg in a round hole "be inappropriate for one's situation" is attested from 1836; to take someone down a peg is from 1589, but the original lit. sense is uncertain (most of the likely candidates are not attested until centuries later).
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