mog
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: mogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mogged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be significantly more attractive than (someone or something); to dominate in appearance.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
stative
transitive
examples: His face mogs mine to hell and back.
This youngshit mogs me: I'm such a hon.
Seriously, whenever I'm on campus, I just get mogged to fucking oblivion. The men are all so fucking god-like compared to a subhuman loser like me.
Elliot Rodger mogs pretty much everyone.
"Watching a Gigachad mog [i.e., outperform] a Chad will be the most pleasurable moment of my life," wrote an incels.co user last year, as "in that moment a Chad will truly understand the pain incels go through."
Jordan Peterson totally blew his big moment of cultural relevancy and celebrity by getting mogged by [Slavoj] Zizek, becoming a pillhead and eating too much meat. Not very cash money of him.
It's so funny when people misgender me because I mog like 75% of cis women
she's not even upset about them mogging her, she's upset them looking the same as her. She considers being our equal to be a horror of horrors.
Uncanny clips of him “mogging” other men — that is, standing next to them and making them look common by comparison — and mercilessly appraising women’s looks have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram. […] And in a show of diplomacy, he said he met with several prominent Jewish club owners in Miami over the “Heil Hitler” incident. (“No more politics, just mogging,” he wrote on Instagram.) […] Clavicular, characteristically, attributed his good luck with the criminal justice system to his looks. “You just gotta mog,” he posted on X, above a screenshot of a news headline.
gloss: To be superior to (something); to beat, outclass.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
broadly
stative
transitive
examples: You live on an alternate world I take it? Joker mogs any MCU film. Batman will too.
Hyderabad is enough to mog any Pakistani city in infrastructure.
Internet absolutely mogs real life because here you can meet so many smart and intelligent people. I met a few here who I'm genuinely sure are in the top 10 of the smartest humans alive right now.
gloss: A cat.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: Get that mog out of here!
The more I hear about Larry the Downing Street cat, the more his story becomes an allegory for our time. As previously reported, the reputation of this mog was trashed by Downing Street spin doctors after he was brought in to clear the Prime Minister’s workplace of mice in 2011.
Ulysses the cat is the real breakout star of the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis. He's not the first feline scene-stealer, though - here are ten other great cats in film (animated mogs excluded)
A few months before she died, Winefride had started setting food out for a brindled mog named Sally who lived in their neighborhood. She was always feeding local cats, but she especially loved this mog, and eventually, Sally grew enormous.
They two gorgeous mogs even have their own teddy bear and blanket to make their snuggling.
Many pet owners have taken up cat-walking in recent years, encouraged by others on social media and by the growing range of outdoorsy cat kit on offer. But for most mogs, the RSPCA suggests, "an indoor environment with plenty of opportunities to be active and mentally stimulated is likely to be more beneficial for the cat's welfare than walking them on a lead."
Related words: moggee
mogger
outmog
platemog
stylemog
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