clothespin / clothes peg

[Natsuna]

Could you take a look at the attachment? What do you call what the image shows?

 

[BLUEGLAZE]

Where I am from, they are called 'clothespins'.

 

[PaulQ]

In BE, it is a clothes-peg; in AE it is clothes-pin. (Hyphens optional, may be one word or two.)

(Crosspost with Blueglaze)

 

[You little ripper!]

In Australia it's called a clothes-peg.

 

[velisarius]

When the context is clear, I normally call them "pegs".
Where are the pegs? - They're on the shelf over the washing machine.

I don't think I have any other type of "peg" in my house, apart from a few that are fixed to the wall and are for hanging coats and scarves on.

I imagine that AE speakers can't call them simply "pins".

 

[Keith Bradford]

In Britain they're (clothes) pegs, kept in a peg basket, and used for pegging washing out on the line.

 

[Rover_KE]

View different types here.

 

[Parla]

No hyphen in clothespin in modern AE.

 

[Barque]

All over Inda, they're clothes clips.

 

[Keith Bradford]

So, I have supplementary questions relating to these regional variants:

• In my #6 I wrote: In Britain they're (clothes) pegs, kept in a peg basket, and used for pegging washing out on the line. What are the derived forms (in bold) if you use the pin/clip version? And what do you call a peg doll if you use the pin/clip version? (See image at http://www.redtedart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/peg-dolls-2-150x150.jpg)

 

[Barque]

No equivalent of a peg basket or a peg doll here. They're often left on the line when not being used.

They're "put on the clothes" to make sure the clothes don't get blown away - there's no exact equivalent of "pegging washing out" either. Only "hanging the clothes out to dry".

 

[GreenWhiteBlue]

Americans simply hang out the wash, or hang clothes on a clothesline. With clothes dryers being so common these days, the sight of laundry hung to dry on a clothesline is getting increasingly rare in much of the US.

 

[dojibear]

I used them as a kid. As the pictures in #7 show, there are 2 types: single-piece and 2-piece-with-metal-spring. As mentioned above, in AE they are never just "pins", and we don't use "pin" or "clothespin" as a verb, we say variations on "hanging clothes up to dry".

 

[RM1(SS)]

And what do you call a peg doll if you use the pin/clip version? (See image at http://www.redtedart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/peg-dolls-2-150x150.jpg)

Haven't seen one of those in ages - so long, in fact, that I can't remember what we called them. Clothespin dolls, maybe?

 

[You little ripper!]

Haven't seen one of those in ages - so long, in fact, that I can't remember what we called them. Clothespin dolls, maybe?

 

[Englishmypassion]

How are peg dolls/clothespin dolls used? I've never seen them and there seem to be no springs, etc in them.

 

[dojibear]

I've never seen clothespin dolls used. But when my daughter was young she had "weebles" - small painted toy figures about that size, with no moving parts. Eventually she had more than 100 of them, and could tell you each one's name and its hobbies, etc.