peg – English noun declension

English noun forms of peg

Noun: peg
Singularpeg
Pluralpegs

Sample Sentences

  • Hang your coat on the peg and come in.
  • a peg to hang a claim upon
  • The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg. [2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin, Icon Books, →ISBN:]
  • This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink. [1898, unknown author, Harper's Magazine:]
  • The name had come to mean any aromatic essence of herbs by the time the first thirsty colonial poured a peg of Who-shot-John into his mint water. [1953, S. S. Field, The American drink book, page 65:]
  • "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books." [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
  • Did we form ourselves, choosing, and our powers? I find myself, for one, as a stringed instrument with chords and stops - but I have no power to turn the pegs, or pitch my thoughts to a higher or lower key. [1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:]
  • to screw papal authority to the highest peg [a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:]
  • We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg[…] [1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:]
  • […] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical. [2004, Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What's News:]
  • 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. [2010, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies, page 111:]
  • Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six. [1961, Colin McCool, Cricket is a Game, page 123:]
  • Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!
  • I then ordered a "peg" (brandy-and-soda) to be brought to my tent, and returned to have a smoke before turning in again. [1894, Arthur Travers Crawford, Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official, page 183:]
  • This is the sort of drinking that Anna Hazare fought to eradicate from Ralegan Siddhi, as Colonel Phatak explained, after I joked about an army man needing his evening peg of whisky before dinner. [2008 September 2, Daniel Lak, India Express: The Future of the New Superpower, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:]
  • 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. [1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:]
  • To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there. [2013, Rod Plotnik, Haig Kouyoumdjian, Introduction to Psychology:]
  • Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each peg. [2023, W. Scott Terry, Learning and Memory: Basic Principles, Processes, and Procedures, page 168:]

Etymology

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. (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. See: Middle English Nouns 'pegge', Swedish Nouns 'pigg', Danish Nouns 'pig', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'pigg', Irish Nouns 'bac', Latin Nouns 'baculum', Ancient Greek Nouns 'βάκτρον'.

Verbs referencing "peg"

Swedish Nouns peg, Middle English Nouns pegge.