Beg vs. Peg — What's the Difference?

To ask (someone) for something in an urgent or humble manner

A small cylindrical or tapered pin, as of wood, used to fasten things or plug a hole.

To ask for (something) in an urgent or humble manner

A similar pin forming a projection that may be used as a support or boundary marker.

To ask for (food or money, for instance) as a beggar.

(Music) One of the pins of a stringed instrument that are turned to tighten or slacken the strings so as to regulate their pitch.

To ask (permission) to do something

A degree or notch, as in estimation

To evade; dodge

Chiefly British A drink of liquor.

To take for granted without proof

(Baseball) A low and fast throw made to put a base runner out.

To ask for something, especially money or food from strangers, in an urgent or humble manner.

(Informal) A leg, especially a wooden one.

To live as a beggar.

To fasten or plug with a peg or pegs.

To make an urgent or humble plea

To designate or mark by means of a peg or pegs.

(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

To fix (a price) at a certain level or within a certain range.

(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

(Informal) To classify; categorize

(transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.

To hit, especially with a thrown object or fired projectile

(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

To throw or fire (an object or projectile)

In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

To work steadily; persist

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

Wide at the top and narrowing toward the bottom

The act of begging; an imploring request.

A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.

A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

A protrusion used to hang things on.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

(figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

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

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

(finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.

To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

(UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

A place formally allotted for fishing

To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.

A leg or foot.

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

Call upon in supplication; entreat;

A step; a degree.

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;

Ellipsis of clothes peg

Ask to obtain free;

(journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.

A stump.

(slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.

A serving of brandy and soda.

(India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.

A shilling.

(transitive) To fasten using a peg.

(transitive) To affix or pin.

(transitive) To fix a value or price.

(transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.

To throw.

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.)

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

To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).

To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.

(intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.

To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.

A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down a peg."

A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water.

A hard throw, especially one made to put out a baserunner; as, the peg to the plate went wild.

To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.

To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.

To identify; to recognize; as, she pegged him as a good carpenter; he was pegged as a blowhard as soon as he started speaking; he was pegged as a exceptional player even in high school.

To throw (a ball); as, he pegged the runner out at second.

To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; - usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

Informal terms of the leg;

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

Succeed in obtaining a position;

Pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into into

Fasten or secure with a wooden pin;

Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations;