peg
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.
This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, 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.
Inflected forms:
form: pegs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pegging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pegged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pegged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fasten using a peg.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's peg the rug to the floor.
gloss: To affix or pin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.
gloss: To fix a value or price.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.
Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
gloss: To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To throw.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: He's been pegged as a suspect.
I pegged his weight at 165.
1997 page 84 of Patriot Gambit by Don Pendletone
Bolan pegged his weight somewhere around 150 pounds. If he was armed, the weapon wasn't showing. Still, the Executioner would take no chances.
gloss: To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
pos: verb
examples: She pegged twelve points.
gloss: To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: We pegged the speedometer across the flats.
gloss: To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […]
gloss: To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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 […]
gloss: To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: To drive (a hackney carriage).
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
Related words: wedge
compare Latin cuneus
cunny
cunt
compare Latin cunnus
Derived words: depeg
level pegging
mispeg
peg down
peggable
pegged pants
peggee
pegger
pegging
peg it
peg out
peg the needle
repeg
unpeg
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