peggy

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Posting a picture of a slave picking cotton or something (two comments up) isn't racist it's just ***** stupid. haha nice, i watched an episode of king of the hill the other day when peggy was a real estate agent, and she was wearing a red suit, i couldn't believe the resemblance to palin.

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  1. Like a peg or pegs; of the form of a peg. The lower incisors are peggy and pointed. Quain, Med. Dict.,; p. 1595.
  2. Any one of several small warblers, as the whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea, or blackcap, S. atricapilla, or garden-warbler, S. hortensis.
  3. A slender poker having a small part of the end bent at right angles, used for raking a fire. Halliwell. [Local, Eng.]

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  • Many different items have been knitted up at Knitter Knatter events, where beginners start with peggy squares and handy woolen scarves.
  • Posting a picture of a slave picking cotton or something (two comments up) isn't racist it's just ***** stupid. haha nice, i watched an episode of king of the hill the other day when peggy was a real estate agent, and she was wearing a red suit, i couldn't believe the resemblance to palin. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • British cart horse peggy enjoys a pint in a pub as much as any horse, so it's little wonder that British media have latched on to a landlady's decision to ban her. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • To submit information, e-mail peggy. skelton@tuscaloosanews.com, call —  Local News from Tuscaloosa News
  • Cowboys hobbled by in their peggy, high-heeled gait, as clumsy afoot as penguins; men in white shirts without coats, their skin too tender to withstand the sun, walked with superior aloofness among the sheep which had come to their shearing pens, preoccupied in manner, yet alert, watching, watching, on every hand Now and then women passed, but they, also, were of the night, gaudily bedecked in tinsel and glittering finery that would have been fustian by day to the least discriminating eye. —  Trail's End
 

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  1. from peg + -y.
  2. Prob. in both senses of familiar use of the feminine name Peggy, diminutive of Peg, a variant of Meg, Mag, abbreviation of Margaret. Cf. mag, madge, etc.
 

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