pegless
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.
Also 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.
6.
7.
9.
British, Anglo-Indian. an alcoholic drink, especially a whiskey or brandy and soda.
10.
British, clothespin.
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.
to keep (the commodity price, exchange rate, etc.) at a set level, as by manipulation or law.
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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
Idioms 22.
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, re·pegged, re·peg·ging.
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peg (pɛɡ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a small cylindrical pin or dowel, sometimes slightly tapered, used to join two parts together |
| 2. | a pin pushed or driven into a surface: used to mark scores, define limits, support coats, etc |
| 3. | music See also pin any of several pins passing through the head (peg box) of a stringed instrument, which can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them |
| 4. | (Brit) Also called: clothes peg, US and Canadian equivalent: clothespin a split or hinged pin for fastening wet clothes to a line to dry |
| 5. | informal a person's leg |
| 6. | dialect (Northern English) a tooth |
| 7. | (Brit) a small drink of wine or spirits, esp of brandy or whisky and soda |
| 8. | an opportunity or pretext for doing something: a peg on which to hang a theory |
| 9. | a mountaineering piton |
| 10. | croquet a post that a player's ball must strike to win the game |
| 11. | angling a fishing station allotted to an angler in a competition, marked by a peg in the ground |
| 12. | informal a level of self-esteem, importance, etc (esp in the phrases bringortake down a peg) |
| 13. | informal See peg leg |
| 14. | chiefly (Brit) off the peg (of clothes) ready to wear, as opposed to tailor-made |
| —vb (sometimes foll by down) , pegs, pegging, pegged | |
| 15. | (tr) to knock or insert a peg into or pierce with a peg |
| 16. | to secure with pegs: to peg a tent |
| 17. | mountaineering to insert or use pitons |
| 18. | (tr) to mark (a score) with pegs, as in some card games |
| 19. | informal (tr) to aim and throw (missiles) at a target |
| 20. | chiefly (Brit) (intr; |
| 21. | (tr) to stabilize (the price of a commodity, an exchange rate, etc) by legislation or market operations |
| [C15: from Low Germanic pegge] | |
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Word Origin & History
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
peg 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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