Contextualizebeta

moggy

noun
/ˈmɒ.ɡi/UK/ˈmɑ.ɡi/US

Etymology

Unknown, but probably originally Mog + -y, a Scots or Northern English variant of maggie (“girl”), from Maggie, a diminutive of Margaret and Margery. First attested in reference to mongrel cats in Cockney.

Definitions

  1. A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable…

    A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.

    • Cockney slang... ‘moggies’ for cats.

  2. Synonym of girl

    Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman.

    • ...expect not so fair an enemy as Cromwel, nor such fair quarter as now is given thee: Jockey, Jemmy, and Moggy thy she-souldier, must than all to the sword...
    • ...in another Hut, a parcel of Scoth Pedlars and their Moggies, Dancing a Highlanders Jig...

  3. Synonym of slattern

    Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.

    • Moggy, a slattern, dressed out untidily: 'She did look a moggy.'
    • At Ickwell Green... the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women).
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Synonym of scarecrow.

    2. Synonym of calf.

    3. A mouse.

    4. A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.

    5. Irrational, out of touch

      • Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.

The neighborhood

Derived

mog

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for moggy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA