mumblety-pegとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• mumbledypeg, mumbletypeg, mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, mumbly-peg

語源

Originally from mumble +‎ the +‎ peg.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmʌmb(ə)ltiˌpɛɡ/

名詞

mumblety peg (uncountable)

1. (US) Any of several forms of a game in which a jack-knife is thrown so that it sticks into the ground close to the player's feet.
   • 1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer, Detective:

     The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming.

   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 296:

     Others played mumbletypeg with rusty stolen jackknives, or simply drowsed in the sunlight, waking now and then to exchange their sorry belongings […] .

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 17, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 94:

     Bailey played mumbledypeg with the older boys around the chinaberry tree […]