stick-frog

English

Noun

stick-frog (countable and uncountable, plural stick-frogs)

  1. Alternative form of stick frog
    1. A game similar to mumblety peg.
      • 2010, Kittrell J. Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler, →ISBN, page 94:
        He would play three handed seven up with Bob Dixon and Jack Stone -- listen with seeming delight to the rickety verses of Joe Delton, or indulge in a game of stick-frog with the skillful John Carter.
    2. A blunt knife
      • 1733, Penelope Aubin, The Humours of the Masqueraders, page 41:
        Put up your Stick-Frogs, good Mr. Devils, an't please Your Worships, and let us converse civilly ; we are honest, well-meaning Men, and love Peace better than War, as well as our Betters.
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