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Peggy

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpɛɡi//

A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.

    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.

  2. 2

    Placeholder name for the party that supplies a proof.

Etymology

Alteration of Maggie, from Margaret.

Forms

plural
Peggys, Peggies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).