moggy
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- noun
- /ˈmɑːɡi/
- UK
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- Let's say it's a moggy and it's called Blossom.
Examples
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Every evening, the friendly moggy visits our garden for some food.
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The moggy sat on the windowsill, soaking up the sun.
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50 quid for a moggy.
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You go to the other side of the universe, make contact with ET, and find he's a cat just like the moggy you left back on the sofa at home.
Blog text (31) -
Where's the moggy?
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She adopted a stray moggy from the shelter last week.
Synonyms
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1.0
A house cat people call in a friendly way, often by children
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An ordinary house cat often a mixed-breed pet
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A member of the cat family, like a lion or house cat
How Pedigreed
Surface Forms
Morphology
moggy = mog + y
Although the form can be seen as the dialectal root 'mog' + the diminutive/affectionate suffix '-y', the root 'mog' is obscure to most learners, so the meaning 'cat' is not reliably derivable from the parts.
Etymology
The word moggy probably started as a pet name, a short form mog plus the friendly -y ending, like in doggy. So moggy is an everyday word for a 'cat', often one with 'no special breed' or a mix of different features.