peggy
/ˈpɛɡi/
peggy noun: any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.
Noun (1)
peggy (plural peggies)
- Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.
Noun (2)
peggy (plural peggies)
- The petty officers' mess steward.
- Against this, her deck staff runs to about a hundred, being made up of some fifty able-seamen, eight or ten 'peggies' […]1936, Charles Richard Benstead, Atlantic Ferry, page 178
- The number of "peggies" going aft to fetch the meals had been increasing steadily.1955, Willi Frischauer, Robert Jackson, The Altmark affair, page 177
Proper noun capitalized: Peggy
Peggy (plural Peggys or Peggies)
- A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.
- "Peggy Fitzgerald," he had said, laughing in what he later remebered as his one and only attempt at humor with her. "Peggy Fitzgerald," he had said, in his easily remembered brogue. "Puts me in mind of me mither, an Irish lass from County Galway."
- Margaret Bunker Fitzgerald had not been amused. "You'll never get over it, will you?" she had spat at him furiously. "You'll never get over being an Irishman, a black Irish Catholic from a Boston slum. Don't you ever dare to call me Peggy again. My name is Margaret, and don't you forget it!"1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Two, Chapter 9
- Placeholder name for the party that supplies a proof.
peggy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
peggy in Hindi
- पेगी, पैगी
peggy in Tamil
- பெக்கி, பெகி
peggy in Marathi
- पेगी, पेग्गी
peggy in Urdu
- پیگی, پیگگی
More languagesFewer languages
- peggy in Bengali
- পেগি
- peggy in Telugu
- పెగ్గి, పెగ్గీ, పెగి
- peggy in Malayalam
- പെഗ്ഗി, പെഗി
- peggy in Kannada
- ಪೆಗ್ಗಿ, ಪೆಗಿ
- peggy in Punjabi
- ਪੇਗੀ, ਪੈਗੀ
- peggy in Gujarati
- પેગી, પેગ્ગી
- peggy in Odia
- ପେଗି, ପେଗୀ
- peggy in Nepali
- पेगी, पेग्गी, पेगि
Forms of peggy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | peggies |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Peggys |
| plural | Peggies |
Origin of peggy
From the name Peggy.
Alteration of Maggie, from Margaret.
Phrases with peggy
Words that rhyme with peggy
Questions about peggy
- What does peggy mean?
- Peggy means any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.
- What is peggy in Hindi?
- Peggy in Hindi is पेगी, पैगी. See Peggy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is peggy?
- Peggy can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce peggy?
- Peggy is pronounced /ˈpɛɡi/.
- What is the plural of peggy?
- The plural of peggy is peggies.
Words near peggy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: peggy (page history and authors); Peggy (page history and authors); peggy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peggy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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