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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Come Down a Peg Humiliated; lowered in dignity, tone, demands, etc. "Well, he has come down a peg or two, and he don't like it."- Haggard. A come down. Loss of prestige or position. " `Now I'm your worship's washerwoman.' The dignitary coloured, and said that `this was rather a come down.' "- Reade. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Descent | Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "COME DOWN A PEG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | alább adja (to climb down, to come down a peg, to come down a peg or two, to pipe down). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | omecay ownday aay egpay сбавить тон (pull in horns). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-m-n-o-o-p-w" | |
-4 letters: comedown, downcome, encamped, megapode, weaponed. | |
-5 letters: cameoed, campong, compend, compone, congaed, congeed, decagon, encaged, endgame, goodman, goodmen, gowaned, megapod, menaced, peonage, wagoned, womaned, woodman, woodmen. | |
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