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1. The original meaning was the peachy or Quongdong (wild Peach). I remember picking the quongdongs and my mother making a peachy pie with the outer skin.
2. The second meaning was applied by local kids when the round, woody inner nut of the quangdong was dried, a fine hole drilled through and a thin string threaded through. There could be many Peachies on the thread. These were used in the school yard as a competition to see who could have the champion peachy. One kid would place the peachy on the ground and another would swing his as hard as possible, hitting the one on the ground and trying to break it. If you succeeded your peachy became a peachy 1 then a peachy 2 etc. You gained the points of the broken one to your own champion. This was also known as Bully 1 bully 2 etc. As a kid I always knew that something that was peachy was a champion and I always though it came from the game of peachy. Compare bullies.