peggy

See also: Peggy

English

Etymology 1

From the name Peggy.

Noun

peggy (plural peggies)

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

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.
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