moggy

Definitions

1. A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
2. Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman.
   Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete, regional
3. Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.
   Midlands, Northern-England, derogatory, rare, regional
4. Synonym of scarecrow.
   Midlands, Northern-England, rare, regional
5. Synonym of calf.
   Midlands, rare, regional
6. A mouse.
   East-Midlands, dated
7. A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.
   Yorkshire

Equivalents

Examples

“Cockney slang... ‘moggies’ for cats.”

“...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...”

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

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

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