different between peg vs pego

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

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pi????/

Noun

pego (plural pegos)

1. (archaic, slang) The penis.

Catalan

Verb

pego

1. first-person singular present indicative form of pegar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?o/
• Hyphenation: pe?go
• Rhymes: -e?o

Noun

pego (accusative singular pegon, plural pegoj, accusative plural pegojn)

1. woodpecker

Galician

Etymology

Perhaps from a non-Celtic substrate language related to Lusitanian, from Proto-Indo-European *pey?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pe??]

Adjective

pego m (feminine singular pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)

1. variegated

   Synonyms: apigarado, multicolor, pégaro, pinto

Related terms

• apigarado
• pégaro

References

• “pego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pego” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pego” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Noun

pego (plural pegi)

1. woodpecker

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From the verb pegar, from Latin pic?re.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?p?.?u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?p?.?u/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?p?.?o/

Verb

pego

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of pegar

   Eu pego isso.

   I grab this.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pe.?u/, /?p?.?u/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pe.?o/, /?p?.?o/

Verb

pego (feminine singular pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)

1. (Brazil) masculine singular short past participle of pegar

Etymology 2

From pega, from Latin pica.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?pe.?u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pe.?u/

Noun

pego m (plural pegos)

1. Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

Etymology 3

From Old Portuguese peego, from Latin pelagus (“sea”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (pélagos). Doublet of pélago.

Noun

pego m (plural pegos)

1. the bottom of the sea
2. the deepest point of a body of water
3. an underwater cave

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pego (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of pega

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?o/, [?pe.??o]

Noun

pego m (plural pegos)

1. (card games) a trick consisting of taking two cards from the pack instead of one

Derived terms

• dar el pego

Verb

pego

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of pegar.