English Dictionary

stickfrog

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A blunt knife / A game similar to mumblety peg

日本語の意味

鈍い刃を持つナイフ。 / マムブレティ・ペグに似た遊び（ゲーム）。

She reached for the stickfrog on the counter and hesitated when she saw how dull its edge had become.

彼女はカウンターの上にある切れ味の悪いナイフに手を伸ばし、その刃がどれほど摩耗しているかを見てためらった。

意味（1）

A blunt knife

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.

意味（2）

A game similar to mumblety peg

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.

stickfrogs （ plural ）