clothes peg
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1.1
- noun
- /kloʊðz pɛg/
- UK
:
pinza de ropa
- From the box, she takes bread soda, baking powder, salt, and the bags of brown and white flour with the tops folded down and held with a clothes peg.
I guess my only question is, what is a clothes peg?
- I guess my only question is, what is a clothes peg?
Examples
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You can just take any big sheet and some clothes pegs or put it over a table even like we have here and build a den.
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l made it for a clothes-peg.
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From somewhere, he had procured a bag of clothes pegs and was setting them out in what appeared to be military order.
Fiction book (1990) -
Dalmar walked to the flagstones where Richard had earlier set out the clothes pegs.
Fiction book (1990) -
If you want to get a basket of laundry sorted, have the kids help; they can give you the clothes pegs while you hang the laundry on the clothesline.
Blog text (4) -
To dry the freshly washed shirts, she clipped each one to the clothesline with a clothes peg.
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The children giggled as they used clothes pegs to hang their artwork on a string across the room.
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He organized the laundry by using several clothes pegs to secure items to the clothesline.
Synonyms
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2.7
A small pin used to fasten or mark things
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1.3
A small wooden or plastic clip that holds clothes on a line while they dry
A small clip made of wood or plastic that holds clothes on a line while they dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably derived from combining 'clothes' (garments) with 'peg' (a small fastening device): a peg for fastening clothes to a line. This is a transparent noun+noun composition (cf. American 'clothespin') and similar constructions exist in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Clothes peg comes from a simple picture: a little wooden peg that holds wet clothes on a washing line so they do not fall. That's why the name means 'a small device for fastening clothes to a clothesline'.