noun
Meaning 1
A cat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, colloquial
Examples
- Get that mog out of here!
Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
mog
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /mɒɡ/
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General-American: /mɔɡ/
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cot-caught-merger: /mɑɡ/
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rhymes with -ɒɡ
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rhymes with -ɔːɡ
noun
Meaning 2
A traditional soft cookie made with molasses, spices, dried fruits, and toasted pecans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Newfoundland
Examples
- Nan made a batch of fresh mogs for Christmas—rich with molasses and full of raisins.
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noun
Meaning 3
Initialism of Machinery of Government.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of Magh.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Meaning 5
To manifest effortless dominance through self-evident superior handsomeness, especially with composure and by quiet comparison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, intransitive, stative, transitive
Qualifier: especially incel slang
Examples
- He mogged him just by standing next to him.
- His face mogs mine to hell and back.
- This youngshit mogs me: I'm such a hon.
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verb
Meaning 6
To be superior to (something); to beat, outclass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, broadly, stative, transitive
Qualifier: chiefly incel slang
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verb
Meaning 7
To move or walk slowly; to trudge, amble; (more broadly) to go.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, dialectal, intransitive
Examples
- to mog about
- to mog off
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verb
Meaning 8
To cause to move; to drive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, dialectal, rare, transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
In the game of costly colours: to exchange (a card) with the dealer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To remove (a public servant) from their position following a Machinery of Government change, a process in which the Government of Australia reorganizes the responsibilities and structure of the government.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, informal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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History
Etymology
Clipping of moggie or moggy.
(Canada, Newfoundland) Shortening of lassy mog. Origin unknown; possibly from lassy (molasses) + a dialectal shortening or variant of mug or morsel.
Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor. Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha)bor. English alpha Latin mās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Latin masculus Vulgar Latin masclus Old French maslebor. Middle English male English male English alpha male Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English of Proto-Indo-European *grewbh-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group English AMOG English mog Derived from AMOG (“alpha male of group”) perhaps influenced by mug (i.e. in mug shot). The word first appeared on fitness forums and imageboards around 2016 and was popularized around 2021.
Unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary tentatively suggests a connection to the Scottish dialect terms mudge (“to move oneself; to stir”) and muggins.
From MoG (“Machinery of Government”).
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мо́гвам (mógvam) — Translations
- Turkish: moglamak — Translations