peggy

See also: Peggy

English

Etymology 1

From the name Peggy.

Noun

peggy (plural peggies)

1. Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.

Etymology 2

Noun

peggy (plural peggies)

1. (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.