What is "peggy"

fem. familiar proper name, alteration of Maggie (see Margaret).\n

Peggy is most commonly a diminutive of the female given name Margaret. It is sometimes spelled Peggie.

Beyond this, Peggy may refer to:

• Peggy (musical), a 1911 musical comedy by Stuart and Bovill
• Peggy (given name), people with the given name Peggy
• Mitsubishi Ki-67, an Imperial Japanese Army heavy bomber during the Second World War given the Allied code name "Peggy"

• , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918

• Peggy of Castletown, a surviving eighteenth century schooner on the Isle of Man
• Peggy (Discover Card), advertising character
• Peggy (album), a 1977 album by Peggy Lee
• Peggy (1916 film), a 1916 silent film comedy drama
• Peggy (1950 film), a 1950 comedy film
• Peggy, Texas

Peggy is a musical comedy in two acts, written by British composer Leslie Stuart, with a book by George Grossmith, Jr. and lyrics by C. H. Bovill, based on Xanroff and Guérin's L'Amorçage. It opened at the Gaiety Theatre under the management of George Edwardes, on 4 March 1911 and ran for 270 performances, starring Grossmith, Edmund Payne, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray in the title role. Ray left the production early in the run, to be replaced by Gladys Guy. When the popularity of the show began to wane, Edwardes had a new role written for Connie Ediss. The show also had a run in New York.

Songs included "Friville", "The Lass with the Lasso", "Three Little Pebbles" and "Ladies, Beware! (When the Lights are low)". Critics praised Stuart's score but observed that the plot of the piece was thin. But they concluded that this did not matter:

[T]here is "Teddy" Payne with his quaint twists of the eye and his delightful lisp. ... Then there is that superlatively dressed young man, Mr. George Grossmith, jun. ... Are we interested in what he does? Of course not. We are interested in his airy, flamboyant manner of doing it. As for those sexy ladies, Miss Phyllis Dare and Miss Olive May, que voulez vous? We know they are going to fall in love with one or the other of the cast. ... They will sing sweetly and dance deliciously, and we shall gaze on their beautiful faces and listen to their enticing voices and ... there are the beauteous houris. ... What charms they possess and what charms they reveal! … What care for a plot when such visions of delight are about? Plot, indeed – be hanged...! And that is just what Mr. George Grossmith, jnr. said to himself when he was concocting the mélange which Mr. George Edwardes, with the assistance of Mr. Edward Royce, scene painters, costumiers, wig makers, and so forth, has served up in such a magnificent and costly manner at the Gaiety. 'Do you think I wanted to trouble about such commonplace things as a plot? ... I was well assured that my ear would be saluted with tuneful melodies and bright songs, for is not Mr. Leslie Stuart the composer?

Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret. It may refer to:

In literature:

• Peggy Kornegger, academic
• Peggy Noonan, author
• Peggy Parish, author

In entertainment:

• Peggy Ashcroft, actress
• Peggy Cummins, actress
• Peg Entwistle, actress
• Peggy Knudsen, actress
• Peggy Lipton, actress
• Peggy McIntaggart, model
• Peggy Mount, actress
• Peggy Ryan, dancer
• Peggy Shannon, actress
• Peggy Wood, actress
• Baby Peggy, child actress of the Silent Film era

In music:

• Peggy Gordon, musical singer
• Peggy Lee, jazz singer
• Peggy March, pop singer
• Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer
• Peggy Sue, a song by American singer Buddy Holly

In fiction:

• Peggy Biggs, character in Mike & Molly
• Peggy Blacket, character in Arthur Ransome's " Swallows and Amazons" books.
• Peggy Bundy, character in Married... with Children
• Peggy Carter, character in Marvel Comics
• Peggy Gordon, title of a Scottish folk song
• Peggy Hill, character in King of The Hill
• Peggy Matsuyama (aka Momoranger), character in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
• Peggy Mitchell, character in EastEnders
• Peggy Ollerenshaw, character in Hi-De-Hi
• Peggy Olson, character in Mad Men
• Peggy Patch, a rag doll puppet in BBC children's TV series Playdays

In sports:

• Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
• Peggy Fleming, figure skater

In politics:

• Peg Luksik, Pennsylvania politician
• Peggy Nash, Canadian politician

In art:

• Peggy Ahwesh, American video artist

Other:

• Peggy Hård, Swedish clerk
• Peggy Whitson, American astronaut

Peggy is a 1977 album by Peggy Lee. It was arranged and conducted by and it is known, Pete Moore.

Peggy (also known as The Devil’s Pepper Pot) is a 1916 American silent comedy film produced and directed by Thomas Ince and stars Billie Burke in her motion picture debut.

Peggy is a character used in ads for the Discover Card. In the ads, Peggy is a bearded man with an Eastern European accent and a moth-eaten sweater. Peggy answers the phone for "USA Prime Credit," for whom he gives evasive or unhelpful customer service. One early commercial implies he is perennially in danger of professional reprimand, which may take the form of physical discipline. He works in an unspecified frozen location, and his call center is a jumble of rubbish, outdated electronics, and stray personal effects.

The character of Peggy was created by the Martin Agency of Richmond, Virginia. He is played by actor Tudor Petrut, who was born in Romania and uses his native accent in portraying the character. Peggy has proven popular in other media, including Facebook, where he had over 47,000 fans as of January 2013. On that site, Peggy has given personal acknowledgments to several fans, up to and including voicing one fan's proposal to his girlfriend. The page's owners stopped maintaining the page in April 2013, having discontinued the character.

Peggy is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Diana Lynn, Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood.

The film's art direction was by Bernard Herzbrun and Richard H. Riedel.