mog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒɡ/
ipa: /mɔɡ/
ipa: /mɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: mogs
form: mogging
form: mogged
form: mogged
Etymology: Unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary tentatively suggests a connection to the Scottish dialect terms mudge (“to move oneself; to stir”) and muggins.
Senses: examples: text: to mog about
text: to mog off
text: They marched, grumbling and threatening, but Sile never paid a bit of attention. He just mogged on behind, and every time one of them turned, he wiggled his gun, and that was enough.
ref: 1923, Clarence Budington Kelland, Catty Atkins, Financier, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 128:
text: He was mogging around on the Muskrat Creek near Indian Lake when he shot and wounded a big buck with the finest head that he had ever seen, a set of horns that he would never forget.
ref: 1978, Harvey L. Dunham, Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods, Sylvan Beach, N.Y.: North Country Books, page 102:
text: But mostly, that dark and rainy afternoon — as I mogged back and forth between boat and office, and then, all books and papers and twenty-seven boxes of Nick the Nose safely aboard, distributed the cargo here and there from stem to stanchion— I thought about Gaybee, her place in the ground, and how sorrowfully soon she had come to it.
ref: 1979, William Kelley, The Tyree Legend, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 350:
text: "Thirty pounds a day," Alex said. "Mogging about in the jungle is unhealthy—fever, tigers, and all that."
ref: 1986, Alvin S. Fick, “A Grave on the Indragiri”, in Cathleen Jordan, editor, Alfred Hitchcock's A Mystery by the Tale, London: Severn House, published 1990, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Two girls hugged her and they all put on boots and shoes and mogged away to the wagons.
ref: 1988, Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman, London; […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 187:
text: I had to do everything on my own. But I made the best of it and mogged on.
ref: 2013, Kathryn R. Biel, Good Intentions, page 246:
text: We know that economist and ex-con Vicky Pryce went properly nuclear when her husband Chris Huhne mogged off with his aide, resulting in wrecked political careers, a family torn asunder and custodial sentences.
ref: 2013 October 10, Rebecca Armstrong, “Revenge is a dish best served... by a woman”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022:
text: They're loyal. And you're not one of us, so we want you out. We're taking over this business. And tha can mog off right now.
ref: 2016, Margaret Dickinson, The Buffer Girls, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 306:
glosses: To move or walk slowly; to trudge, amble; (more broadly) to go.
examples: text: 'Tell John to mog the cows i' in the mornin'—it's time as they wenten i' the Cote Leasnow.'
ref: 1879, Georgina F[rederica] Jackson, “MOG”, in Shropshire Word-Book, a Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc. Used in the County, London: Trübner & Co, page 285:
text: "I've been directed here to find Miss Susan Pike," the man outside explained, between fresh coughings. ¶ "Well, then, mog your boots out of this as quick as ever you can!" my Aunt replied, with great promptitude. "You won't find her here!"
ref: 1894, Harold Frederic, “My Aunt Susan”, in Marsena and Other Stories of the Wartime, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 200:
glosses: To cause to move; to drive.
examples: text: Mogging or Changing. The cards being dealt, the first player asks the dealer if he will mog, i. e. exchange a card with him. Should he refuse, the challenger scores 1. […] If the opposite partners do not mog, the dealer has the privilege of mogging with the 'deck,' which he does by taking the card next under the trump and substituting in its place one out of his own hand.
ref: 1886, Georgina F[rederica] Jackson, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, Shropshire Folk-Lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings, London: Trübner & Co., page 648:
glosses: In the game of costly colours: to exchange (a card) with the dealer.