Meanings
- pluralplural of Margaret
As a result, My beautiful lovely one, the Meg of all the Megs and Margarets and of all the Peggys and of my most Peggy & also of my Grace
1992, Long News, in the Short Century2 more examples
“Now Betty must name this girl. Anything you fancy, dear.” / “I like Margaret the best of all,” smiled Betty; “it is your name and mother’s name and my Margaret’s; besides, it’s easy and homey.” / “Very well,” nodded grandma, “but let us call her Meg for short. All Margarets are Megs when you get very intimate, and I imagine we shall get very intimate with this little friend.”
1906, Harriet Theresa Comstock, Meg and the Others, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., page 9Then let’s all hold communion instead of confrontation, you Marys, Margarets, Megs, you mothers, sisters, daughters; it’s family reunion that finds by acclamation we’re sick of treading eggs.
1991, Vassar Miller, If I Had Wheels Or Love: Collected Poems of Vassar Miller, Southern Methodist University Press, →ISBN, page 214
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