Meaning of Peggy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.
2. The petty officers' mess steward.
   UK, slang
3. A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.
4. Placeholder name for the party that supplies a proof.

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Examples

“"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!"”

“When Caroline gave birth to another daughter, they named her Margaret Ann, after me and then Oscar's mother. They didn't realize⟳ that Peggy was my given name⟳. Now they call⟳ her Ann, because I do.”

“Against this, her deck staff runs to about a hundred, being made up of some fifty able-seamen, eight or ten 'peggies' […]”

“The number⟳ of "peggies" going aft to fetch⟳ the meals had been increasing steadily.”

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