moggy

noun · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

moggiesmoggie

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

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more moggy

Superlative

most moggy

1.
(South Africa, Zimbabwe, slang)Irrational, out of touch

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

girl slattern scarecrow calf

Cùng gốc / liên quan

mog muttmongrel cat mutt mongrel dog

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Nguồn gốc từ

, but probably originally Mog + -y, a sco or Northern English variant of maggie (girl), from Maggie, a diminutive of Margaret and Margery. First attested in reference to mongrel cats in Cockney.