moggy

plural moggies · alternative moggie

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

   Cockney slang... ‘moggies’ for cats.

   1911, John William Horsley, I Remember: Memories of a 'Sky Pilot' in the Prison and the Slum, page 254

2. Northern EnglandScotlandobsoleteregionalSynonym of girl: a female child or young woman.

   ...in another Hut, a parcel of Scoth Pedlars and their Moggies, Dancing a Highlanders Jig...

   1699, Edward Ward, The London Spy, volume I, page 15

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   ...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...

   1648, William Lilly, An Astrologicall Prediction of the Occurrances in England, Part of the Yeers 1648, 1649, 1650, page 60

   Synonyms: girl

3. MidlandsNorthern EnglandderogatoryrareregionalSynonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.

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

   1886, Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire, s.v. "moggy"

   1 more example

   At Ickwell Green... the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women).

   1980, Automobile Association, Book of British Villages, page 263

   Synonyms: slattern

4. MidlandsNorthern EnglandrareregionalSynonym of scarecrow.

   Synonyms: scarecrow

5. MidlandsrareregionalSynonym of calf.

   Synonyms: calf

6. East MidlandsdatedA mouse.
7. YorkshireA kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.

comparative more moggy · superlative most moggy

1. South AfricaZimbabweslangIrrational, out of touch.

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

   2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025