What is the name meaning of PEG. Phrases containing PEG
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from Tapeley in Devon, which Ekwall derives from Old English tæppa ‘peg’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, i.e. ‘wood where pegs are obtained’.
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English
Short form of English Peggy, PEG means "pearl."
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English
Variant spelling of English Peggy, PEGGIE means "pearl."
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English
English : variant of Pegg.
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Australian, British, English, German, Greek
Creative Spelling of Peggy
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English (chiefly Leicestershire)
English (chiefly Leicestershire) : from Middle English pegge ‘peg’ (from Middle Dutch, of uncertain origin), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of wooden pegs, or perhaps a nickname for a person with a wooden leg.English (chiefly Leicestershire) : perhaps in some cases from the female personal name, a short form of Margaret.
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Greek Persian English
Pearl.
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Greek American Persian English
Pearl.
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English and German
English and German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of pins or pegs, from Middle English pin, Middle Low German pin(ne) ‘pin’, ‘peg’. In some cases the German name was an metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.English (Devon) : from Middle English pinne ‘hill’ (Old English penn), a topographic name or a habitational name from a place named with this word, e.g. Pinn, Pinn Court Farm, or Pin Hill Farm, all in Devon.
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English and North German
English and North German : occupational name for a maker of pins or pegs (or alternatively, in the case of the German name, a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker), a derivative of Pinn, with the addition of the agent suffix -er.English : occupational name for a maker or user of combs, Anglo-Norman French peigner, an agent derivative of peigne ‘comb’.English : habitational name from Pinner, now part of northwest London, which derives its name from Old English pinn ‘pin’, ‘peg’ + Åra ‘slope’, ‘ridge’, describing a projecting hill spur.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Pinne (Polish Pniewy) near PoznaÅ„.German : habitational name for someone from a place called Pinnan or Pinne.
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English
English : nickname for a fleet runner, from Old French pie de lievre ‘hare’s foot’.German : occupational name for a calibrator (someone who checked weights and measures), from an agent derivative of Middle Low German pegel ‘mark or measure for gauging fluids’, ‘gauge’.
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Greek
(Πήγασος) Greek name derived from the word pegaios, PEGASOS means "born near the pege (source of the ocean, spring, or well)." In mythology, this is the name of a winged horse who was the son of Poseidôn and the Gorgon Medousa (Latin Medusa), and brother to the giant Khrysaor (Latin Chrysaor). Like Athene, who was born of Zeus's head, Pegasos and Chrysaor are said to have been born of Medusa's neck when Perseus beheaded her. According to Hesiod, everywhere Pegasus struck hoof to earth an inspiring spring burst forth.
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Greek
Winged horse.
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English (mainly Cambridgeshire)
English (mainly Cambridgeshire) : variant of Pilgrim.
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English
Pet form of English Peg, PEGGY means "pearl." It is a variant spelling of Meggie, the pet form of Meg. The reason for the change from "M" to "P," which also occurs in Molly and Polly, is not known.
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English (mainly Kent)
English (mainly Kent) : nickname from Middle English pÄ“, pÄ â€˜peacock’ (see Peacock).English : from an early medieval personal name, apparently masculine, but of uncertain origin; perhaps derived from 1, or, as Reaney suggests, a survival of Old English Pæga.French : habitational name from places called Le Pay, in Indre, Rhône, and Vendée. This may also be a variant of pays ‘region’, ‘country’, used to denote a local person.Irish (County Kilkenny) : apparently from the Old English female personal name Pega, taken to Ireland (Kilkenny) by English settlers. Peakirk in Northamptonshire, England, is named for St. Pega (died c. 719), who reputedly founded a cell there.
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Peg.
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Hebrew
Wild goat. In the Old Testament, Jael committed murder by driving a tent peg through a male...
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English
English : occupational name for a maker of dowels and similar objects, from an agent derivative of Middle English dowle ‘dowel’, ‘headless peg’, ‘bolt’.
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Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Peg
v. t.
To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
v. t.
To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
v. i.
To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
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A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
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A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
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A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.
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The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
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An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes.
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Like or pertaining to Pegasus.
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A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
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Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.
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One who fastens with pegs.
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of Peg
v. t.
To remove a peg or pegs from; to unfasten; to open.
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The act or process of fastening with pegs.
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A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.