That would relate it to PIE bak- "stick, to hit", source also of Late Latin bacillus "little stick", diminutive of baculum "stick" and Greek baktron "stick, staff".
In the 15th century it was spelled pegge, suggesting a kinship with German Pegel and Dutch peil "watermark rod". It could be related to mum, but there are no theories as to how. It is assumed to be the sense of mumble in mumbletypeg, since one variant of the game is that the loser has to pull up the winner's knife from the ground with his teeth. Wondering in Volume, his debut LP, appeared in 1997. Mumble in the 14th century was momelen "to eat slowly", and today mumble still retains that meaning. Mumble & Peg was the lo-fi alias of singer/songwriter Erik Carter. The loser of the game had to take it out with his teeth. The game gets its name from a stick driven into the ground by the winner of the game, which the loser must pull out of the ground with his teeth. 1 The term 'mumblety-peg' came from the practice of putting a peg of about 2 or 3 inches into the ground. From the 17th through the 19th centuries usage varied from the original 'mumble-the-peg' to just 'mumble-peg', as we see in the Mark Twain quote above. Wondering in Volume by Mumble & Peg, released 01 January 1997 1. Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played using pocketknives. The object of the game is for each player to flip or toss the knife in a progression of moves such that, after each one, the knife sticks in the ground and stands erect. The game was played as early as the 17th century in the British Isles. Word History: Today's Good Word started out its life as mumble-the-peg for reasons lost in the bowels of time. mumblety-peg, also spelled mumbledy-peg, or mumbly-peg, original name mumble the peg, game of skill played with a knife, usually a jackknife. In Play: In Galaxy Magazine, 139, 2 (1870) Mark Twain put it this way: "If anybody caught him playing 'mumble-peg' by himself, after the age of sixty, he would immediately appear to be ciphering out how the grass grew." We might hear it used thus: "The young'uns wanted to show off their mumbletypeg skills with the Bowie knife they found in dad's camping gear." mumblety-peg, also spelled mumbledy-peg, or mumbly-peg, original name mumble the peg, game of skill played with a knife, usually a jackknife. Aside from the rare use of this noun as a verb meaning "to play mumbletypeg", is has no derivational family. Notes: Some people still spell this word with a hyphen, as mumblety-peg. A game in which boys throw or flip their (pocket)knives to see which boy is better at sticking his knife in the ground from different positions or throwing their knives various ways. Meaning: Knifey (Scotland), stagknife (New Zealand), stick-knife.
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