stick frog

English

Alternative forms

• stickfrog
• stick-frog

Noun

stick frog (countable and uncountable, plural stick frogs)

1. (uncountable) A game similar to mumblety peg.
   • 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 61:

     The others could tell stories, play stick frog or such quiet games, but there was to be no noise to disturb the wonderful speaking going on upstairs for the betterment of Wayne County schools.

   • 2006, Mac McQuagge, The Color of Angels, →ISBN, page 174:

     To complicate things, in stick frog, one had to hold onto his right ear with his left hand and hold the knife in his right hand while extending his right hand through the loop formed by his left with one toss.

   • 2008, Mary Ellen Baldree Forlines, Nancy and Joe Plus Seventeen, →ISBN, page 65:

     Sometimes on Sunday, Ola, Ethel, Joe and I would go to the pasture, and sit under the sweet gum tree or play stick frog.

2. (countable) A blunt, crudely-made knife.
   • 1985 October, Seymour Howard, “The steel pen and the modern line of beauty”, in Technology and Culture, volume 26, number 4:

     One would scarcely think of hardening a quill in order to enable it to compete with a steel nib in some of the least desirable qualities, though one often wishes one could accomplish the reverse process, and soften or supple a steel 'stick frog' so as to give it the elasticity of the grey goose quill.