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moggy

English

Alternative forms

moggie

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.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /?m??i/
(US) IPA^(key): /?m??i/

Noun

moggy (plural moggies)

(Scotland and Northern England regional, obsolete) Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman.
- 1648, William Lilly, An Astrologicall Prediction of the Occurrances in England, Part of the Yeers 1648, 1649, 1650, p. 60:
  ...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...
- 1699, Edward Ward, The London Spy, Vol. I, p. 15:
  ...in another Hut, a parcel of Scoth Pedlars and their Moggies,
  Dancing a Highlanders Jig...
(Midlands and Northern England regional, derogatory, rare) Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.
- 1886, Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire, s.v. "moggy":
  Moggy, a slattern, dressed out untidily: 'She did look a moggy.'
- 1980, Automobile Association, Book of British Villages, p. 263:
  At Ickwell Green... the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women).
(Midlands and Northern England regional, rare) Synonym of scarecrow.
(Midlands regional, rare) Synonym of calf.
(Britain) A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.
- 1911, John William Horsley, I Remember: Memories of a 'Sky Pilot' in the Prison and the Slum, p. 254:
  Cockney slang... ‘moggies’ for cats.
(Yorkshire) A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.

Coordinate terms

(mongrel cat): mutt (mongrel dog)

Derived terms

Translations

References

“moggie, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2002.
“moggy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
“moggy” in the Collins English Dictionary

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