mumbletypeg

mumbletypeg
/mum"beuhl tee peg'/, n.
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, mumbledepeg, mumbledypeg /mum"beuhl dee peg'/, mumble peg, mumble-the-peg /mum"beuhl dheuh peg'/, mumblety-peg, mumbly-peg /mum"blee peg'/.
[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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