peggy
peggy Lexical Profile
peggy Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Australian A crew member or worker assigned to clean, fetch meals, and perform general housekeeping chores in a shearers' quarters, construction camp, or aboard a ship.
"The station peggy had hot tea and fresh bread waiting when the shearers finished their morning run."
British A long-handled wooden tool with a peg-like base formerly used to agitate and pound clothes in a wash tub.
"Before electric washing machines became common, households relied on a wooden peggy and a zinc tub to clean heavy linen."
British A regional name for several small old-world warblers of the families Sylviidae and Phylloscopidae, especially the whitethroat or willow warbler, common in British hedgerows and woodlands.
• Rhymes for peggy
Word Origin & Etymology
Sense 1 derives from a rhyming alteration of 'Meggy', a diminutive of the given name Margaret, whereas the tool sense comes directly from 'peg' plus the diminutive suffix '-y'.