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Definition of Mumble-the-peg
1. Noun. A game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mumble-the-peg
Literary usage of Mumble-the-peg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Artists of America: a series of biographical sketches of American by Charles Edwards Lester (1846)
"Among others is ' Mumble the Peg,' which was commissioned of Inman a few years
ago, and engraved for Mr. Carey's favorite Annual. And although the peculiar ..."
2. The United Service (1889)
"The thing took, and in the afternoon almost all the prisoners were
playing "Mumble-the-Peg." From this " Leap-Frog" and many other games and amusements
were ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger (1861)
"Then I repeated My Series of Noises in a more earnest manner than at first, played
another dime of mumble-the-peg, and felt a Pain for the want of Marbles. ..."
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