From en.wiktionary.org:
[Peg]
** Translingual
*** Symbol
[mul-symbol]
1. [3]
*** See also
- [[pagename]]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], [odt], from [en], [gem-pro], from [en],
[ine-pro]. Cognate with [nl] dialectal [nl], [nds], [nds], [nds], [sv], [da],
[nb], [ga], [la], [lv], [grc]. Related to beak.
This is one of the very few English words that begin with a [en] and come from
Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic [gem-pro], when not in a consonant cluster
beginning with [gem-pro], developed by 吴语: Grimm's law from the
Proto-Indo-European consonant [ine-pro], which was very rare.
[To indicate or ascribe an attribute to] Assumed to originate from the use of
pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
2. A protrusion used to hang things on.
3. [en] A support; a reason; a pretext.
4. [en] A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
5. [en] A fixed exchange rate , where a currency 's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
6. * [en]
7. [en] A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1898 | author=unknown author | title=Harper's Magazine
|passage=This over, the club will be visited for a " PEG," Anglice drink.}}
1. * [en]
2. A place formally allotted for fishing
3. [en] A leg or foot.
4. * [chapter=2]
5. One of the pin s of a musical instrument , on which the string s are strain ed.
6. * [II]
7. * [chapter=4]
8. A step; a degree.
9. * [sermonname=A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy]
10. * [year=1905]
11. [en] .
12. [en] A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary , around which various feature s can be developed.
13. * [en]
14. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2010 | author=Barbie Zelizer; Stuart Allan | title=Keywords in News and Journalism Studies | page=111
|passage=Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their
attention are constantly on the lookout for PEGS. The process by which a PEG
is identified is informed by news values.}}
1. [en] A stump .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1961 | author=Colin McCool | title=Cricket is a Game | page=123
|passage=Lindy hit the PEGS with five deliveries out of six.}}
1. [en] [en] The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo .
2. [en] A serving of brandy and soda .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1894 | author=Arthur Travers Crawford | title=Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official | page=183
|passage=I then ordered a " PEG" (brandy-and-soda) to be brought to my tent,
and returned to have a smoke before turning in again.}}
1. [en] A serving of any hard spirit , particularly whisky .
2. * [en]
3. [en] A shilling .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1859 | title=Snowden's magistrates assistant | page=90
|passage=The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is
about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a PEG
(shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.}}
1. [en] An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualize s with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See [mnemonic peg system] .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Rod Plotnik; Haig Kouyoumdjian | title=Introduction to Psychology
|passage=To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each PEG
along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2023 | author=W. Scott Terry | title=Learning and Memory: Basic Principles, Processes, and Procedures | page=168
|passage=Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each PEG.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[a cylindrical object]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[a protrusion used to hang things on]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] [esp. for clothes] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt] , [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[peg moved on a crib board to keep score _(cribbage)_]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[a fixed exchange rate]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
[trans-bottom]
[a small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- German: [de] , [de]
[trans-bottom]
[pin on a musical instrument]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[a step, a degree]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[clothes peg]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- German: [de] , [de]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[an event that triggers news coverage (journalism)]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To fasten using a peg .
2. [en] To affix or pin .
3. [en] To fix a value or price.
4. * [en]
5. [en] To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
6. [en] To throw .
7. [en] To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
8. [en] To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
9. * 1997 page 84 of Patriot Gambit (see https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Patriot_Gambit/C0JUBDaTSXQC) by Don Pendletone
10. *: Bolan PEGGED his weight somewhere around 150 pounds. If he was armed, the weapon wasn't showing. Still, the Executioner would take no chances.
11. [en] To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
12. [en] To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
13. [en] [en] To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo .
14. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2007 | author= 吴语: Violet Blue (author) | title=The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex | page=32 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=MZeUeRRm4pQC | isbn=157344278X
|passage=When you're PEGGING him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a
number of physical signs [...]}}
1. [en] To keep working hard at something; to peg away .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1911 | author=William Montgomerie Lamont | title=Volunteer memories | page=160
|passage=For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the
country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept PEGGING at it,
despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way [...]}}
1. [en] To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda ; to tipple .
2. [en] To drive (a hackney carriage ).
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Robert Newman | title=The Case of the Somerville Secret
|passage=I was PEGGING a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to
see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to fasten using a peg]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[to affix or pin]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Maori: [mi]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[to fix a price or value]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr]
- Spanish: [es]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[to narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[to throw]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to indicate or ascribe an attribute to]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr] (tahmi:n)
[trans-bottom]
[cribbage: to move one's pegs to indicate points scored]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de]
- Turkish: [tr] (tahmi:n)
[trans-bottom]
[slang: to reach or exceed the maximum value on a scale or gauge]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: to penetrate in anal sex with a dildo]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- Marathi: [mr]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [en] , compare Latin cuneus
- [en] , [en] , compare Latin cunnus
- (_cribbage_ ): muggins
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Cornish
*** Etymology
[kw], from [kw].
*** Pronunciation
- [kw]
*** Noun
[m]
1. pitch , tar
** Danish
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
- [da]
*** Verb
[da]
1. [da]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Slovene
*** Noun
[sl]
1. [sl]
** Swedish
[lang=sv]
*** Etymology
[sv].
*** Noun
[c]
1. [sv] a tee (peg on which the golf ball is placed)
**** Declension
[2=pegg]
**** See also
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
** Tagalog
*** Etymology
Possibly from [tl].
*** Pronunciation
[tl-pr]
*** Noun
[b=+] [tl]
1. desire d way or style of doing things [tl]