Talk:moggy

Mongrel?

Cats are not mongrels, as this applies to dogs. 165.12.252.111 04:09, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Cats can also be purebred or not. — LlywelynII 15:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

BG?

What does BG stand for? ZFT (talk) 05:40, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Who knows? It looks like a practical joke. There's some idiot in France who spends an inordinate amount of time coming up with exactly this sort of almost-plausible nonsense. Chuck Entz (talk) 08:15, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Cleanup

The page previously claimed to be sourced to the OED but completely botched the etymology, senses, and their order. That's fixed.

There was also this passage in the previous etym—

Alternatively, in Wigan, moggy traditionally applied to mice, not cats, and a cat was a moggy catcher, which may have been clipped to moggy.

—which is not necessarily implausible but doesn't seem to have any basis in fact, as far as any reliable dictionary is concerned. It was 'sourced' to a "moggy.com" article which is not necessarily reliable. If anyone has a reliable guide to actual Manchester slang (apparently what was meant by 'Wigan' although our entry doesn't mention that) and it actually mentions this use for mice, please do add it back in.

It seems more likely it has something to do with the cows and that they have something to do the 19th-century slang mog (to amble, to be forced to move, to move along unwillingly) but, again, we need reliable dictionaries making those connections for us. — LlywelynII 15:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Also other creatures?

Thorne's slang dict cites a letter to the Independent of 4 Sep 1992: "Can I just inform you that in South Lancashire a moggy is not a cat, it is a mouse or a small insect. When will the rest of the country learn this?" Equinox ◑ 23:05, 31 March 2023 (UTC)