Brewer's: Peg

or Peggy, for Margaret, corrupted into Meg or Meggy. Thus, Pat or Patty for Martha; Poll or Polly, for Mary, corrupted into Moll or Molly; etc.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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