stickfrog

English

Noun

stickfrog (countable and uncountable, plural stickfrogs)

1. Alternative form of stick frog
   1. A blunt knife
      • 1825, Cruikshank, “Conjugal Delights”, in The Spirit of the public journals, page 188:

        A bit arter, I hears a jarring, — up goes I ; she comes at me with a knife — only a stickfrog it's sartin, but it's a knife — and a knife's a knife, all the world over; but howsomever that says nothing.

   2. A game similar to mumblety peg
      • 1960 July, James Hurst, “The Scarlet Ibis”, in Atlantic Monthly, page 142:

        All day long (when we weren't gathering dog's-tongue) we'd swing through the cypresses on the rope vines, and if it rained we'd huddle beneath an umbrella tree and play stickfrog.