stick-frog

stick-frog

English

Noun

stick-frog (countable and uncountable, plural stick-frogs)

1. Alternative form of stick frog
   1. A game similar to mumblety peg.
      • 2010, Kittrell J. Warren & ‎Floyd C. Watkins, Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler, →ISBN, page 94:

        He would play three handed seven up with Bob Dixon and Jack Stone -- listen with seeming delight to the rickety verses of Joe Delton, or indulge in a game of stick-frog with the skillful John Carter.

   2. A blunt knife
      • 1733, Penelope Aubin, The Humours of the Masqueraders, page 41:

        Put up your Stick-Frogs, good Mr. Devils, an't please Your Worships, and let us converse civilly ; we are honest, well-meaning Men, and love Peace better than War, as well as our Betters.