Meaning of moggy | Babel Free

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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