tent peg

English

Noun

tent peg (plural tent pegs)

1. A peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent.

   Synonyms: spike, stake

   Upon arrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tent pegs; they had to use rocks and logs to tether the tent instead.

2. (Cockney rhyming slang) An egg.

Derived terms

• tent pegging

Translations

peg, to hold a rope that supports a tent

• Arabic: وَتَد اَلْخَيْمَة (watad al-ḵayma)
• Czech: stanový kolík m
• Dutch: tentharing (nl) m
• Esperanto: fosteto (eo)
• Finnish: vaarna (fi)
• French: sardine (fr) f
• German: Erdnagel m, Hering (de) m, Zelthering (de) m
• Irish: pionna pubaill m
• Japanese: テント杭 (tento-kui)
• Polish: śledź (pl) m
• Russian: ко́лышек (ru) m (kólyšek)
• Slovak: stanový kolík m
• Spanish: estaca (es) f, piqueta (es) f
• Swedish: tältpinne (sv) c, tältspik c
• Turkish: çadır mandalı
• Vilamovian: hjēriḱ m

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005) “tent peg”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1945.
• Jonathon Green (2024) “tent peg n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang