English
moggy
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈmɒɡi/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈmɑɡi/
Noun

moggy (plural moggies)

  1. (Scotland & North England regional, obsolete) Synonym of girl#English|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...
  2. (Midlands & North England regional, pejorative, rare) Synonym of slattern#English|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).
  3. (Midlands & North England regional, rare) Synonym of scarecrow#English|scarecrow.
  4. (Midlands regional, rare) Synonym of calf#English|calf.
  5. (UK) 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.
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