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Moggy

//ˈmɑ.ɡi// adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Irrational, out of touch South-Africa, Zimbabwe, slang

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

Noun
  1. 1
    A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK

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

  2. 2
    Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman. Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete, regional

    "...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..."

  3. 3
    Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman. Midlands, Northern-England, derogatory, rare, regional

    "Moggy, a slattern, dressed out untidily: 'She did look a moggy.'"

  4. 4
    Synonym of scarecrow. Midlands, Northern-England, rare, regional
  5. 5
    Synonym of calf. Midlands, rare, regional
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  1. 6
    A mouse. East-Midlands, dated
  2. 7
    A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc. Yorkshire

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Derived from the Unimog, a brand of rugged four-wheel drive trucks popular in rural areas of South Africa and Zimbabwe.

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