different between peg vs knob

English

Etymology

From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Saxon *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *ba?- (“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”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek ??????? (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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/, [p???]
• Homophone: Peg
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

peg (plural pegs)

1. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
2. Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length.
3. A protrusion used to hang things on.

4. (figuratively) A support; a reason; a pretext.

5. (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
6. (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold
7. (Britain) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
   • 1898, unknown author, Harper's Magazine

     This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.
8. A place formally allotted for fishing
9. (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2

     "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."

10. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

    • But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,

      As honest as I am.

    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 4

      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.

11. A step; a degree.
    • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy (sermon)

      to screw papal authority to the highest peg

    • We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg […]

12. Clipping of clothes peg.
13. (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
    • 2010, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies (page 111)

      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.

14. (cricket, slang) A stump.
    • 1961, Colin McCool, Cricket is a Game (page 123)

      Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.

15. (slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.

Synonyms

• (small quantity of strong liquor): shot

Related terms

Translations

Verb

peg (third-person singular simple present pegs, present participle pegging, simple past and past participle pegged)

1. (transitive) To fasten using a peg.

2. (transitive) To affix or pin.

3. (transitive) To fix a value or price.

4. (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
5. (transitive, slang) To throw.
6. (transitive, slang) 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.)

7. (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.

8. (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).

9. (slang, transitive, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
10. (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
    • 1911, William Montgomerie Lamont, Volunteer memories (page 160)

      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 […]

Related terms

• level pegging
• peggable
• pegging
• pegged pants

Translations

See also

• wedge, compare Latin cuneus
• cunny, cunt, compare Latin cunnus
• (cribbage): muggins

Anagrams

• EPG

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paj/, [p??j?]
• Rhymes: -aj?

Verb

peg

1. imperative of pege

Middle English

Noun

peg

1. peg

Slovene

Noun

peg

1. genitive dual/plural of pega

English

Etymology

From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob; knot in wood”). Cognate with Dutch knob, knobbel (“knob”), German Knubbe, Knubbel (“knob”). See also knop.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?b, IPA^(key): /n?b/
• (US) enPR: n?b, IPA^(key): /n?b/
• Rhymes: -?b
• Homophone: nob

Noun

knob (plural knobs)

1. A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
2. A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
3. A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
4. A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
5. A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
6. (geography) A prominent rounded hill.
   • 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 144:

     We climbed to the top of Slate Hill, the highest knob in our town, and Ricky gave me a whole talk on how slate formed, how it was and was not shale.

7. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
8. (vulgar, slang, chiefly Britain) The penis.
9. (vulgar, slang) The head of the penis; the glans.
10. (slang, derogatory, by analogy with above) A contemptible person.
11. (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
12. A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
    • 2001, David Joachim, The Clever Cook's Kitchen Handbook

      Place whole, unpeeled knobs of ginger in a zipper-lock freezer bag for up to 3 months. Slice or break off what you need and return the rest to the freezer.

13. A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:penis

Derived terms

• doorknob
• drawknob
• knob-and-tube
• knobhead

Translations

Verb

knob (third-person singular simple present knobs, present participle knobbing, simple past and past participle knobbed)

1. (Britain, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sex with.

Synonyms

• dick, get up in, schlong; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Anagrams

• Bonk, bonk

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German kn?p (“knot”), probably via Old Saxon from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”). Compare Dutch knoop and Swedish knop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kno?b/, [k?no??b?]

Noun

knob n or c

1. knot (nautical unit of speed)
2. knot (some specific type of looping of a rope)

Usage notes

In the sense speed unit, it is common gender; the plural indefinite form is knob; no definite forms. In the sense looping of a rope it is neuter gender.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (knot): knude

Further reading

• knob on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Knob (fart) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “knob”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle English

Noun

knob

1. Alternative form of knobbe