peggy
See also: Peggy
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the name Peggy.
Noun
[edit]peggy (plural peggies)
- Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]peggy (plural peggies)
- (UK, naval slang) The petty officers' mess steward.
- 1936, Charles Richard Benstead, Atlantic Ferry, page 178:
- Against this, her deck staff runs to about a hundred, being made up of some fifty able-seamen, eight or ten 'peggies' […]
- 1955, Willi Frischauer, Robert Jackson, The Altmark affair, page 177:
- The number of "peggies" going aft to fetch the meals had been increasing steadily.