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Definition: Peg |
PegNoun1. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface. 2. Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. 3. Informal terms of the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks". 4. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg. 5. Regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument. 6. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. Verb1. Succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard". 2. Pierce with a peg; knock or thrust a peg into. 3. Fasten or secure with a peg; "peg a tent". 4. Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Peg" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a pearl". |
Date "peg" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Peg \Peg\, noun. [Old English pegge; compare to Swedish pigg, Danish pig a point, prickle, and English peak.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | To stake out: to designate or mark with -- the plan and position of a future building upon its site. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Peg or ~~~Peggy, Peggy, for Margaret, corrupted into Meg or Meggy. Thus, Pat or Patty for Martha; Poll or Polly, for Mary, corrupted into Moll or Molly; etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A male extension of the tup or anvil fitted into a corresponding hole in the die block for accurate location in longitudinal direction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A surveyor's mark. b. To mark out a miner's claim at the four corners by pegs bearing theclaimant's name. Sometimes used as "peg out. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Device which is designed for inserting in a jack to prevent the entry of a plug. It may or may not operate the springs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PEG. Old Peg; poor hard Suffolk or Yorkshire cheese. A peg is also a blow with a straightarm: a term used by the professors of gymnastic arts. A peg in the day-light, the victualling office, or the haltering-place; a blow in the eye, stomach, or under the. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PEG | English | Price earning ratio/growth | N/A |
PEG | French | Polyéthylène glycol | Chemical Industry, Medicine |
PEG | German | Polyethylenglykol | Chemical Industry, Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PegSynonyms: leg (n), nog (n), oarlock (n), pegleg (n), pin (n), rowlock (n), stick (n), thole (n), tholepin (n), wooden leg (n), nail (v), nail down (v), peg down (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Instrument | Hammer; (impulse); edge tool; (cut); borer; vice, teeth; (hold); nail, rope; (join); peg; (hang); support; spoon; (vehicle); arms; oar; (navigation); cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph. |
Support | Trunnion, pivot, rowlock; peg; (pendency); tiebeam; (fastening); thole pin. |
Term | Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Peg |
| English words defined with "peg": croquet ♦ Fleam tooth ♦ golf tee ♦ Knag ♦ peg down, Peg tankard, Pegged, Pegging, Pivot tooth ♦ ringer ♦ square ♦ tee, tent peg, toggle, Traverse board, treenail, trenail, trunnel ♦ Unpeg. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "peg": Come Down a Peg, CRUSHER-AND-BINDER OPERATOR ♦ dobby-loom chain-pegger, Drink Deep ♦ frost pin ♦ HEEL TAP ♦ jamb stick, Jetheth, JEWEL INSERTER ♦ multifocal-button assembler, MULTIFOCAL-LENS ASSEMBLER ♦ Ovation ♦ Peg too Low, PEGGER, DOBBY LOOMS, PIPE RACKER ♦ recoil spring winder ♦ SPIRAL SPRING WINDER, SPRING LAYER ♦ wooden peg. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "peg": Paxillus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Peg" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (tee), Welsh (peg). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Square Peg (1958) Peg of Old Drury (1935) The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (1916) Peg o' the Ring (1916) Old Peg Leg's Will (1915) | |
Song Titles | PEG (performing artist: STEELY DAN) | |
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![]() | A schematic rendition of PEG 8000 and PEG 300 at a surface of a protein. Adifference between the solvent accesible volumes is clearly seen (Picture courtesy V. Licata, UMN). Credit: NICHD. | ![]() | Schematic presentation of the system DNA + salt + counterions + PEG at an equilibrium across a semipermeable membrane. The membrane is impermeable to PEG and DNA. There is however no obstruction to the motion of small ions (Picture courtesy H.H. Strey, NIH). Credit: NICHD. |
![]() | Above knee amputation with peg legs. : Reconstruction class. / U.S.A. Signal Corps. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Reconstruction class, attaching iron frame to cast for peg leg for above knee amputee. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Then he sits in that car that won't stir a peg. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Peg Woffington. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Wooden peg used in corn shucking. Fred Wilkins farm. Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Mr. Jones planting tobacco. With the wooden peg in his hand he scoops a small hole for the plant to be inserted. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Levittown houses. Peg Brennan, residence at 25 Winding Lane. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Ugly Americanism (ug'-li a-mer'-i-can-ism), n. a kind of hypocrisy where the richest country in the world talks about human rights while developing a neutron bomb / a WIN poster by Peg Averill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Theodore Roosevelt | I am hard at work on my message to Congress, and accordingly shall not try to go out or see any one either this afternoon or this evening. All of this work is terribly puzzling at times, but I peg away at it, and every now and then, when the dust clears away and I look around, I feel that I really have accomplished a little, at any rate. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | How it happened, Alice never knew, but exactly as she came to the last peg, she was gone |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It engenders a world, (r)la pegre, read robbery, and a hell, (r)la peg renne, read (r)hunger |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Despite this, the authorities are under no pressure to adjust the peg. (references) | |
The dollar peg also passes changes in the dollar's rate of exchange directly through to the UAE economy. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hungary | In May 2001, the Central Bank sharply widened the band around the peg from 2.25 percent to 15 percent. (references) |
Uae | The UAE dirham has been pegged to the dollar at 3.67 dirhams per dollar since 1980. The authorities are under no pressure to adjust the peg, although periodically reports surface suggesting that authorities may consider linking the dirham to a basket of currencies, including the Euro. (references) | |
Hungary | In 2000, the official average exchange rate for the HUF to the USD was 282.27. The Central Bank manages a crawling peg foreign exchange regime, linked to the Euro. (references) | |
Political Economy | HUNGARY | In the months since, the forint appreciated steadily and in recent months settled at a rate about 9 percent above the reference peg to the Euro, an appreciation of about 7 percent. (references) |
POLAND | On April 12, 2000, the NBP abandoned the crawling peg it had used since 1991 and allowed the zloty to float freely. (references) | |
ECUADOR | Up until February of 1999, the Central Bank maintained a crawling peg exchange rate system. (references) | |
Trade | Croatia | Croatia's currency, the kuna (HRK), floats freely, but the Croatian National Bank intervenes in the market from time-to-time to ensure stability of the currency, effectively ensuring the crawling peg (to the Euro) performance, disrupted by the seasonal impacts of tourism revenues. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place. "I had an ovation!" the actor man said, But I thought it uncommonly queer, That people and critics by him had been led By the ear. The Latin lexicon makes his absurd Assertion as plain as a peg; In "ovum" we find the true root of the word. It means egg. Dudley Spink |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Peg" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Peg" is used about 548 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 366 | 14,782 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.59% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.1% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.64% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 548 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "peg" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Peg | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,778 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Peg" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a pearl". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Peg." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Margaret | Female | English | N/A |
| Meg | Female | English | Margaret |
| Peg | Female | English | Peggy |
| Peggy | Female | English | Meg |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "peg": a square peg in a round hole ♦ clothes peg ♦ clothes' peg ♦ come down a peg ♦ hal peg ♦ hat peg ♦ he is a square peg in a round hole ♦ mumble peg ♦ Mumbledy peg ♦ Mumblety peg ♦ odontoid peg ♦ off the peg ♦ peg along ♦ peg at ♦ peg away ♦ peg away at ♦ peg clothes on the line ♦ peg down ♦ peg drill ♦ peg house ♦ peg ladder ♦ peg leg ♦ peg of whisky ♦ peg out ♦ peg out a property ♦ peg pants ♦ peg root ♦ peg saw ♦ peg tankard ♦ peg tooth ♦ peg top ♦ peg up ♦ picking peg ♦ put a square peg into a round hole ♦ screw peg ♦ square peg in a round hole ♦ take down a peg ♦ take down a peg lower ♦ take down a peg or two ♦ take him down a peg ♦ take smb. down a peg ♦ take smb. down a peg or two ♦ tent peg ♦ turtle peg ♦ vent peg ♦ wooden peg. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "peg": peg-board, peg-doll, peg-hole, PEG-interferon alfa-2B, peg-leg, peg-legged, peg-like, PEG-MGDF, peg-pant, peg-precipitates, peg-sellers, peg-selling, peg-shape, peg-tooth, peg-top, peg-top trousers. | |
Ending with "peg": clothes-peg, off-the-peg. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
peg perego | 1,319 | peg nx70v | 43 |
peg | 362 | peg nz90 | 40 |
peg perego stroller | 202 | peg ratio | 40 |
aunt peg | 200 | sony clie peg sj33 | 40 |
square peg | 152 | motorcycle foot peg | 39 |
peg prego | 86 | peg leg | 36 |
peg tg50 | 81 | peg perego aria | 35 |
peg intron | 75 | bundy peg | 35 |
peg board | 67 | nx80v peg | 34 |
peg pergo | 62 | sony clie peg sj22 | 34 |
clie peg sj20 sony | 61 | sony clie peg nz90 | 31 |
peg tube | 58 | peg square tvb | 30 |
peg perego high chair | 56 | peg sony tg50 | 30 |
peg sj20 | 55 | peg perego pliko | 28 |
highway peg | 51 | peg perego battery | 28 |
clie nx70v peg sony | 49 | bike peg | 27 |
clie peg sony tg50 | 48 | foot peg | 27 |
peg perego car seat | 45 | clie peg sj30 sony | 27 |
peg sj33 | 45 | peg board hook | 26 |
peg sj22 | 44 | peg perego.com | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "peg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kap me kapëse (clip, pin up), fiksoj me kunj, gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), gotëz (nip, pony, tot), hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unseal, unshutter, unwrap, walk), hidhem (bounce, bound, caper, dash, Frisk, hop, jig, jounce, jump, launch, leap, lunge, pounce, skip, spring, vault, Wade), dhëmb (cog, Dent, Fang, prong, serration, tine, tooth), kanxhë (coupling, crampon, drag, gaff, grab, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, hook, Peavey, Peavy, pothook), vjegë, kapëse rrobash (clothes peg, clothes pin), kunj (axle pin, dowel, hob, key, linchpin, picket, pin, pintle, piquet, Spike, spile, spline, tenon, toggle), mbërthej (brace, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, corner, do up, enchain, fasten, grip, hold, hook, hook up, make fast, nab, paw, seize, snatch), shkallë (accommodation ladder, caliber, calibre, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, grade, ladder, level, measure, notch, phase, pitch, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), stabilizoj (settle, stabilize), varëse (hanger, holdfast, pendant, pennant, suspension, suspensor), këmbë (abutment, foot, hoof, leg, locomotives, paw, pin, shank, trotters). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلاب للإمساك ب, ملوى العود أو الكمان, مشجب (hatstand), قوى بالأوتاد, قدم (advance, age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, come back, display, extend, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, offer, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), وتد (cleat, coin, dowel, nog, pad, pale, picket, pin, pole, spar, stake, wedge), ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), سدادة (bung, gland, infarct, logjam, plug, spigot, spile, stop, stopper), عزر (cop, motif), صفق (acclaim, applaud, clap, decant), اسفين (wedge), إندفع بعزم, ثبت الأسعار (set prices), شراب مسكر (boose, booze, brandy, champagne, drink, drinking, inebriant, intoxicant, medicine, nappy, pot, rum). (various references) | |
Basque | orkatila. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | клечка (stick), повод (cause, ground, halter, handle, motive, occasion, reason, rein, room, signal, subject), предел (bound, limit, line, margin, pale, period, precinct, radius, verge), претекст (alibi, color, colour, come off, excuse, plea, pretence, pretense, pretext, put off, salvo, stalking horse, subterfuge), белег (earmark, guide, impress, incision, marking, patent, print, scar, seam, sign, snick, stigma, sully, symptom, tincture, token, trace, vestige, weal, welt), запушалка (choke, obturator, plug, spile, stopper, tampion, tap, wad), закачалка (hanger), закрепям с клечка, знак (badge, check, denotation, ensign, indication, parallel, patent, place, seal, sign, signal, symptom, type, vestige), ориентир (landmark), глътка (drachm, drag, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, lap, mouthful, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sip, sup, swallow, taste), извинение (alibi, apology, excuse, extenuation, justification, pardon, put off), клин (chock, cleat, cotter bolt, gusset, key, lock, loco, nib, panel, quoin, salient, wedge), степен (degree, exponent, extent, gradations, grade, length, magnitude, notch, order, pitch, power, prairie, rate, remove), ключ (cab, clef, crib, key, keystone, keyword, signature, switch), колче (marker), крак (foot, leg, paddle, podium, shank, stilt), кука за закачане, шплинт (splint), тапа (faucet, plug, spile, stopper, stopple), чашка (bell, calyx, chalice, cup, drink, envelope, pony, receptacle, shot, thalamus), чеп (bung, burr, fauces, knag, knar, knot, knur, knurl, nodule, Nodus, nub, plug, spigot, spile, tap, toggle), щипка за пране (clothes peg), щифт (axle pin, dowel, locking-finger, nog, pin, pintle, plug, splint, sprig, toggle), щепсел (plug), гвоздей за закачане. (various references) | |
Chinese | ' (Pegging, spike, stapled, stapling), 衣夾 , 木釘 . (various references) | |
Czech | provrtat (perforate, Pierce), připevnit èepy, vìšák (clothes' peg, coat hook, rack, suspender), trefovat se, kolík (baton, dossil, pin, pivot, plug), kolíèek (pin, spill), flokovat, flok, èep (bung, spigot, tenon). (various references) | |
Danish | ploek (picket, sleeper plug, stud, treenail), pael (perch, pile, wooden pile), tap (butt, chuck, core, disc pivot, dowel, hinge bolt, journal, pintle, pivot, shoulder, spigot, spike tooth, sprue, tack, tap, tenon, wire nail), not (cotter, dimple for a shot pin, feather, groove, key, milled slot, notch, seine fishing net, seine net, slot, spline), knast (boss, cam finger, crust, dowel, gnarl, heel, knot, lever boss, lifter, wiper), kile (chock, cleat, cotter, cut, feather, integral key, key, quoin, shim, shim piece, speed-change lane, spline, sump, taper, wedge), fikspunkt (measuring point, picket, reference point, stake), feder (cotter, feather, integral key, key, key without taper, non-tapered key, plain key, spline, sunk key, untapered key), blindstik, blindprop. (various references) | |
Dutch | borrel (dram, nip, snifter, snorter), aperitief (dram, nip, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aperitivo (dram, nip, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Farsi | پا (Foot, Leg, Paw, Pod), میخکوب کردن محکم کردن , میخ چوبی (Picket, Spile, Stake), میخ زدن (Joggle, Stud, Tack), میخ (Nail, Spike), چنگک (Gaff, Hook, Prong, Rake, Tach, Uncus), کوشش کردن (Assay, Attempt, Bend, Labor, Strive, Struggle, Try), کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Experience, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, String, Suffer, Trace, Trawl, Weigh), عذر (Alibi, Excuse, Plea, Pretext, Purporst, Subterfuge), دندانه (Cog, Dent, Jag, Leaf, Nick, Tine, Tooth), درجه (Alloy, Degree, Gauge, Gradation, Grade, Length, Mark, Measure, Point, Proportion, Stair, Step, Thermometer), دربالاپهن ودرپاءین نازک , بهانه (Alibi, Evasion, Excuse, Fetch, Fiction, Mask, Plea, Pretense, Pretext, Purporst, Subterfuge). (various references) | |
Finnish | pultti (bolt, pin), vaarna (plug), ohjaustappi (dowel, dowel pin, guide pin, pilot), ohjauspuikko (dowel, dowel pin), naula (hobnail, nail, pound, spike), nappula (pin). (various references) | |
French | piquet, cheville. (various references) | |
Frisian | foaritentsje (dram, nip, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
German | Pflock (stake), Stöpsel (Cork, electric plug, Jack, little fellow, pegs, plug, stopper), Klammer (brace, bracket, clamp, clip, cramp, dog, grip, paperclip, parenthesis, staple), Keil (chock, cotter, gore, gusset, hand-ax, wedge). (various references) | |
Greek | καρφώνω (fasten with nails, nail, peg out, pin, rivet, skewer, sprig, tack), σφήνα (chock, quoin, wedge), γόμφος (pin, wedge), ξύλινο καρφίο, πάσσαλοσ (pale, picket, pile, pole, spile, stake), πάσσαλος (pole, stake), παλούκι (pale, picket, pile, pole, sod, stake, stick), τυφλό βύσμα, τεμάχια συγκράτησης (dowel), τοπογραφικός πάσσαλος (picket, stake). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסמר (gad, nail, pin, rivet, stud), ית"" (nail), ית" כו ון (tuning key), ית" (nail, pale, pin, stake, strut, stud, tack, wedge), לחזק בית"ות (stake), תלי (hanger, quiver, suspensory), וו (hasp, hook, pin), קולב (hanger, hook, nog), פקק (bung, gag, logjam, plug, spigot, stopper, tap), ''ין עם סו"". (various references) | |
Hungarian | szeg (nail, pin, spike, stud, tack, to hem), ruhafogas (clothes peg, coat-stand, hat stand, hat-rack, rack), cövek (pale, paling, picket, pin, spike, spud, stake, stock). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pasak, paku (brad, nail, spike), sangkutan (connection, hook, involvement, relation), baji (wedge). (various references) | |
Italian | picchetto (picket, piquet, stake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ドラ息子 (being pegged to the dollar, Dolby, Dolby surround, dolce, dolcissimo, Doline, doll, dollar, dollar clause, dollar peg, dollar shift, dollar shock, dollar shop, dollar usance, dolly, dolman sleeve, dolmen, dolphin kick, doria, Dorian, Dortmund, dream, dreamer, dreaming, dreamy, dribble, drifter, drill, drink, drip coffee, driven, durian, lazy son, profligate son), 木釘 (wooden peg). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドルペッグ (being pegged to the dollar, dollar peg), きくぎ (wooden peg). (various references) | |
Korean | 나무못. (various references) | |
Manx | sheaym (wooden pin), pinney (pivot), kibbin (dibble, gad, linchpin, spike, stake, wooden pin), dhull (bung, drain plug, hole, plug). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dram (dram, nip, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Occitan | cavilha (pin). (various references) | |
Papiamen | aperitivo (dram, nip, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prego de madeira (wooden nail), taco (club, dowel, golf club, mace, plug, stick), segurar com cavilhas, marcar (book, brand, chalk, crop, define, determine, dial, earmark, feature, mark, print, read, reserve, scribe, show, signalize, stamp, trace), macaquinho (dowel), fixar preços na bolsa, firmar com cavilhas, estaca (pale, picket, pole, prop, rod, slip, spile, stake, stanchion), delimitar com estacas, cavilhar, cavilha (axle pin, cotter, dowel, forelock, gudgeon, key, kingpin, pike, pin, pintle, preventer, spike, tenon, thole), cabide de madeira, atirar pedras (pelt), aperitivo (aperitive, appetizer, appetizing, cocktail, dram, nip, snifter, snorter, stomachic, whet). (various references) | |
Romanian | picior (base, foot, joint, leg, paw, shoulder, stalk, stem, toe), par (even, pale, pole, spile, stake), panã (arrow, break down, chock, cleat, cotter, failure, feather, Gib, injury, jaw, pen, pick, pinion, plug, plume, puncture, quill, quill pen, Spike, wedge), pãhãrel (eye opener, wet), fixa cu un cui, ţintã (aim, blaze, butt, clout, design, end, goal, hobnail, ideal, nail, object, objective, pin, purport, purpose, pursuit, tack, target, weltnail, whither), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), ştift (cotter, finger, nail, stud), bate un cui în, cârlig (clamp, clasp, crook, crotchet, Fang, grapnel, grapple, hanger, harpoon, hook, staple), cârlig de rufe (clothes pin, pin), categorisi (categorize, classify, style), cui (cotter, nail, pin, rough, Spike, sprig, stud, whose), cui de lemn (nog), cuier (hal peg, hallstand, hanger, hanging, hat stand, rack, rail, stand), ţãruş (cleat, pale, picket, pin, spile, stake), fixa în cuie (peg down), treaptã (bench, degree, horse, level, pace, rank, remove, round, rung, spoke, stage, stair, step, tread), ghermea, lemn (billet, chuck, stick, timber, wood), marca cu pari, scoabã de traversã, stabiliza (settle, stabilize, steady), strop (atom, bead, bit, drop, grain, nip, ounce, Pearl, spatter, speck, spot), dop (Cork, float, stop, stopper, wad). (various references) | |
Russian | вешалка (hanger, hatrack, rack, rail, tab), деревянный гвоздь, джин с содовой водой, пикет (picket line, piquet), прикреплять колышком, забивать колышек, затычка (bung, gag, obturator, pad, plug, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tampion), зуб (claw, knife, tooth, toothe), деревянная нога (peg leg), нога (foot, hoof, leg), стержень (arm, bar, bolt, center, centre, core, pivot, rod, scape, shaft, shank, spindle, stud), веха (landmark, milestone, perch), втулка (boss, bung, bushing, collar, hob, nave, pad, quill, sleeve, socket, spigot, spile, tampion, vent-peg), колок (pin), колышек (tee, tees), шпилька (brad, hair pin, hairpin, pin, spike heel, stiletto heels, stud, tenon), штифт (dowel, finger, stud, tag), штепсель (plug, switch plug, switch-plug), целиться (aim, level, take aim), нагель (dowel, nog, treenail). (various references) | |
Scottish | cnag (a crack, a pin, knob, pin, thowlpin). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zub (tooth), spojiti klinom (key), odrediti (allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, cast, define, designate, destine, detail, determine, fix, mark off, mark out, modify, order, route, set, set by), noga (foot, leg, shank, tootsy), kočić, ključ za zatezanje žica, klin (chock, cleat, cotter, gore, salient, sprocket, stud, tenon, toggle, wedge), baciti (bung, cast, chuck, dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, pitch, project, shoot, slap, sling, throw, throw out, toss). (various references) | |
Spanish | estaca (cudgel, cutting, hint, pale, paling, picket, pile, pole, post, spur, stake, stick), aperitivo (aperitif, appetizer, dram, nip, snifter, snorter). (various references) | |
Swedish | pinne (perch, rod, stake, stick, toggle). (various references) | |
Turkish | vesile (handle, means, purchase), sodalı viski, saptamak (appoint, assign, determine, establish, fix, state), mazeret (alibi, allegation, apology, excuse, justification, plea, putoff), kazık çakarak sabitlemek (peg out), kazık (deceit, pale, picket, pile, post, ramp, stake), dübel, belirlemek (adjust, appoint, assess, assign, condition, decide, define, detect, determine, dictate, establish, identify, limit, note, seal, set, set down, settle, single out, slate, specify, state), bahane (allegation, blind, cavil, cloak, cop out, cover, evasion, excuse, guise, plea, pretence, pretext, putoff, rise, salvo, shift, stalking horse, subterfuge, veil), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), askı kancası, akort vidası, ağaç çivi ile çakmak, ağaç çivi (treenail), çamaşır mandalı (clothes peg, clothes pin). (various references) | |
Turkmen | weюalka (r) (rack), gazyk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | установлювати ціни (valorize), кілочок (spill), кілок, вішалка (portmanteau, rack, shoulder, tab), нагель (dowel, nail, nog), проколювати (broach, impale, pin, prick, prickle, puncture, skewer), прикріпляти кілочками. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lý do (cause, consideration, motive, pretext, reason, wherefore), l m cho ai hết vênh váo, l m cho ai co vòi lại, cơ hội (opportunity, time, time-serving), cái ngạc cái móc, cái chốt (detent, fiddle, joint-pin). (various references) | |
Welsh | pegio, peg, ebill (auger, borer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | paxilli, paxillos, paxillum, paxillus. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | pegge. (various references) |
| Old North French | 1200-1500 | taque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peg": pegboard, pegboards, pegbox, pegboxes, pegged, pegging, pegless, peglike, pegmatite, pegmatites, pegmatitic, pegs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "peg": repeg, unpeg. (additional references) | |
Words containing "peg": arpeggiate, arpeggiated, arpeggiates, arpeggiating, arpeggio, arpeggios, bibliopegic, bibliopegies, bibliopegist, bibliopegists, bibliopegy, repegged, repegging, repegs, scapegoat, scapegoated, scapegoating, scapegoatings, scapegoatism, scapegoatisms, scapegoats, scapegrace, scapegraces, unpegged, unpegging, unpegs. (additional references) | |
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"Peg" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apeg, epb, epf, epg, epig, eprg, ip, opeg, pag, Pagb, Pagk, pago, pagp, pagu, Payg, pbe, pde, Peb, pec, peeg, pege, Peggo, Pegi, pego, pegu, Peh, peig, Peigi, pej, pem, peng, P'eng, peo, peq, perg, Perga, peu, pev, pewg, pez, Pfe, phg, pieg, piga, pigh, pigi, pigo, pilg, pjg, pleg, png, pog, pogg, ppg, preg, Pregl, pyg, speg, veg, Xeg, zeg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peg" (pronounced pe"g) |
| 2 | -e" g | beg, egg, keg, leg, Meg, Reg, Segue. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-p" | |
-1 letter: pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-p" | |
+1 letter: gape, page, peag, pegs. | |
+2 letters: agape, gaped, gaper, gapes, genip, getup, grape, gripe, grope, paged, pager, pages, parge, peage, peags, pengo, phage, plage, pogey, purge, repeg, unpeg. | |
+3 letters: agapae, apogee, eggcup, epigon, epilog, gapers, gapped, gasped, gasper, gawped, gawper, genips, getups, gimped, gipped, gipper, gopher, gospel, grapes, grapey, griped, griper, gripes, gripey, grippe, groped, groper, gropes, guimpe, gulped, gulper, gypped, gypper, magpie, megilp, pagers, panged, pangen, parged, parges, parget, peages, peeing, pegbox, pegged, pelage, penang, pengos, phages, phlegm, pieing, pigeon, pigged, piggie, piglet, pigpen, pinged, pinger, pipage, plages, plague, pledge, plunge, pogeys, pogies, ponged, pongee, potage, proleg, pugged, pugree, pungle, purged, purger, purges, repegs, repugn, sparge, sponge, spurge, unpegs, upgaze, upgrew. | |
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