stickfrog

plural stickfrogs

1. Alternative form of stick frog.
   1. countableuncountableA 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.

      1825, Cruikshank, “Conjugal Delights”, in The Spirit of the public journals, page 188

   2. countableuncountableA 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.

      1960 July, James Hurst, “The Scarlet Ibis”, in Atlantic Monthly, page 142