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Synonyms for pegging

Grammar : Verb
Spell : peg
Phonetic Transcription : pɛg

Définition of pegging

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from Middle Dutch pegge "peg," a common Low German word (cf. Low German pigge "peg," German Pegel "gauge rod, watermark," Middle Dutch pegel "little knob used as a mark," Dutch peil "gauge, watermark, standard"), of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *bak- "staff used as support" (see bacillus). To be a square peg in a round hole "be inappropriate for one's situation" is attested from 1836; to take someone down a peg is from 1580s, but the original literal sense is uncertain (most of the likely candidates are not attested until centuries later). Peg leg "wooden leg" attested from 1765.
  • verb attach
Example sentences :
  • I wish you were on a job like this, instead of pegging away at your piano.
  • Extract from : « Jane Journeys On » by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
  • Isn't he pegging away at his studies with my hearty approval?
  • Extract from : « Beautiful Joe » by Marshall Saunders
  • Then we ascended to the second story, where sewing and pegging were going on.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Service. » by Albert D. Richardson
  • It was the pegging out of a claim which has been made effective.
  • Extract from : « Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists » by Various
  • "Not a bit of it," said East bitterly, pegging away with his pencil.
  • Extract from : « Tom Brown's School Days » by Thomas Hughes
  • He was as weak as a rat, and I know he came very near "pegging out."
  • Extract from : « At Suvla Bay » by John Hargrave
  • "Not a bit of it," said East, bitterly, pegging away with his pencil.
  • Extract from : « Tom Brown at Rugby » by Thomas Hughes
  • For days I had been pegging away at a task which refused to get itself accomplished.
  • Extract from : « Optimism » by Helen Keller
  • So far you have only been pegging out the ground it is going to occupy.
  • Extract from : « The Practice and Science Of Drawing » by Harold Speed
  • Here we've been for a week pegging away at this Bill, bargaining and bickering.
  • Extract from : « Punch Volume 102, May 28, 1892 » by Various

Antonyms for pegging

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