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Peg Away

Definition: Peg Away

Peg Away

Verb

1. Work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Peg Away

Synonyms: keep one's nose to the grindstone (v), keep one's shoulder to the wheel (v), plug away (v), slog (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Peg Away

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Familiar Quotations: Peg Away

AuthorQuotation

Theodore Roosevelt

I am hard at work on my message to Congress, and accordingly shall not try to go out or see any one either this afternoon or this evening. All of this work is terribly puzzling at times, but I peg away at it, and every now and then, when the dust clears away and I look around, I feel that I really have accomplished a little, at any rate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Peg Away

Expression using "peg away": peg away at. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Peg Away

Language Translations for "peg away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ngulem në punë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏واصل العمل, ‏واظب (persevere, stick, worry at). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

работя упорито (peg at), къртя (flop, peg at, pick), бачкам (dig, grub, peg at). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pracovat o sto šest. (various references)

   

French

  

bosser. (various references)

   

German

  

nicht locker lassen (persist). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitartóan dolgozik (to ply), gürizik. (various references)

   

Italian

  

incaponirsi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egpay awayay

   

Romanian

  

munci din greu la (peg away at). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

упорно добиваться, корпеть (plug away at, pore over). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

marljivo raditi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trabajar con ahínco, machacar (carry on, crush, grind, harp on, natter, pound, pound away, pulverize, slash, stomp). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jobba på. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

azimle çalışmak (peg along). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Peg Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-p-w-y"

-2 letters: agape.

-3 letters: away, gape, gapy, gawp, page, peag, wage, yawp.

-4 letters: aga, age, ape, awa, awe, aye, gae, gap, gay, gey, gyp, paw, pay, pea, peg, pew, pya, pye, wae, wag, wap, way, wye, yap, yaw, yea, yep, yew.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, aw, ay, pa, pe, we, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-p-w-y"
 

+3 letters: passageway.

 

+4 letters: passageways.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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