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moggy

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɒ.ɡi/Sorted ggmoyStarts with MEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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...

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