English

Alternative forms

• mumbletypeg
• mumble-the-peg

Noun

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.
   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 296:

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