pegging
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛɡɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ
Noun
pegging (countable and uncountable, plural peggings)
- The act of fastening with a peg.
- Pegs collectively.
- The activity of artificial climbing on crags and in quarries outside the main mountain areas.[1]
- (sex) The act of anal penetration of a man by a woman wearing a strap-on dildo.[2]
- Determined perseverance in work; pegging away.
- (dated) A thrashing.
Verb
pegging
- present participle of peg
References
- Alan Blackshaw (1965), “Chapter 9. Artificial climbing ('pegging')”, in Mountaineering: From Hill Walking to Alpine Climbing, Penguin Books, page 248: “This chapter describes the extra equipment and special techniques needed for artificial climbing. As noted in § 34, 2, this form of climbing has been developed in this country on limestone crags and gritstone quarries outside the main mountain areas.”
- The term was popularized when it became the winning entry in a contest in the Savage Love sex-advice column in 2001.