go

en-noun

go (countable and uncountable, plural goes)

From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Low German gahn (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish gå (“to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).

cog

(cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.


skunk

→ Czech: skunk

→ Danish: skunk

→ German: Skunk

→ Finnish: skunkki

→ French: skunks

→ Icelandic: skunkur

→ Japanese: スカンク (sukanku)

desc

→ Kashubian: skunk (Canada, United States)

→ Norwegian: skunk

→ Polish: skunks

→ Russian: скунс (skuns)

→ Slovak: skunk

→ Swedish: skunk

From an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, segonku (“he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”). Doublet of Chicago.

cog

(cribbage) A win by thirty or more points. (A double skunk is sixty or more, a triple skunk ninety or more.)


skunk

en-verb

skunk (third-person singular simple present skunks, present participle skunking, simple past and past participle skunked)

skunks (present singular third-person)
skunking (participle present)
skunked (participle past)
skunked (past)

(cribbage) To win by thirty or more points.


peg

From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.
This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare.
(To indicate or ascribe an attribute to): Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.

sense

(cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.

Stift

peg moved on a crib board to keep score (cribbage)


peg

en-verb

peg (third-person singular simple present pegs, present participle pegging, simple past and past participle pegged)

pegs (present singular third-person)
pegging (participle present)
pegged (participle past)
pegged (past)

She pegged twelve points.

(cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.

schätzen

cribbage: to move one's pegs to indicate points scored


bilk

Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.

(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.


nob

Pronunciation spelling of knob.
Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.

One for his nob.

(cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.)


crib

en-noun

crib (countable and uncountable, plural cribs)

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kräbbe, Krääb, Krääf (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.
The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense.

inh

“May we play crib, Mrs. Radford?” he asked.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

The cards were brought and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till bed-time; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckonings of the game—And that makes thirty-one, four in hand and eight in crib.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 239:

(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.


muggins

en-noun

muggins (countable and uncountable, plural mugginses)

Origin unknown. Sense 'fool' originally British slang of 1770s, probably an extension of earlier mug (“fool”). Game senses perhaps from surname Muggins.

(cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mispegged or counted up incorrectly.


nibs

Two for his nibs.

(cribbage) a jack turned up by the dealer. (see also nob)


his nibs

Comes from early 19th century in literature. From the British, it was noticed that "nabs" was in use; from the Dutch was seen "nebs"

Two for his nibs.

(cribbage) A jack turned up by the dealer.


peg out

en-verb

peg out (third-person singular simple present pegs out, present participle pegging out, simple past and past participle pegged out)

pegs out (present singular third-person)
pegging out (participle present)
pegged out (participle past)
pegged out (past)

(cribbage) To move one's peg to the last position on the pegboard, and thus win.


his nob

From nob, mimicking a form of address like Your Highness.

his knob (alternative)
his nobs (alternative)
His Nobs (alternative)
his nibs (alternative)
His Nibs (alternative)

Cribbage is a most virtuous and respectable game, and yet scarcely, one would think, possessing in itself sufficient attractions to keep a young gentleman in his twentieth year tied to the board, and going through the quaint calculation night after night of "fifteen two, fifteen four, two for his nob, and one for his heels."

1860, Thomas Hughes, “Tom Brown at Oxford”, in Macmillan's magazine, volume 1:

(card games, chiefly cribbage) a jack; a knave


nineteen hand

So called because 19 is one of the few scores between 0 and 29 that cannot actually be achieved.

(cribbage, humorous) A hand of cards that scores no points.