tent peg

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, volume 2 (J–Z), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1945.
• Jonathon Green (2023), “tent peg n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang