mog

verb

1. (Internet, intransitive, stative, transitive)To be significantly more attractive than (someone or something); to dominate in appearance.

   “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."”

2. (Internet, broadly, stative, transitive)To be superior to (something); to beat, outclass.

   “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.”

3. (UK, US, dialectal, intransitive)To move or walk slowly; to trudge, amble; (more broadly) to go.

   “to mog about”

   “to mog off”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

4. (UK, US, dialectal, rare, transitive)To cause to move; to drive.

   “'Tell John to mog the cows i' in the mornin'—it's time as they wenten i' the Cote Leasnow.'”

   “"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!"”

5. (intransitive, transitive)In the game of costly colours: to exchange (a card) with the dealer.

   “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.”

6. (Australia, informal, transitive)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.

   “The slowdown in house purchases prior to an election is natural, but not because public servant buyers are skittish about the political climate. They just don't want to watch the ink dry on their sale on a house in Tuggeranong, close to their department, only to be comprehensively mogged and presented with a commute to another building in faraway Belconnen - or worse, Gosford.”

   “[Kevin] Rudd, [Peter] Coaldrake and [Glyn] Davis joined [Wayne] Goss, [Tom] Burns and Treasurer Keith De Lacy on the Machinery of Government (MOG) Committee that reviewed the reports of the PSMC (and led to the idiom that people had been 'mogged').”

   “But recently under a machinery of government change, with the centralisation of the cybersecurity function under Alastair MacGibbon, that team has been mogged out from the DTA.”

   “After every election there is a lot of focus on the reshuffle – the personnel changes as a prime minister creates their new team. But civil servants will also be looking to see if it is not just their ministerial team who are reshuffled but whether they have been "mogged" – the verb the Australians use for what we rather less dramatically call "subjected to a machinery of government change". If we read the manifestos, there is quite a lot of potential "mogging" on offer.”

   “On Friday night, at the stroke of midnight, over 70,000 Commonwealth workers will be mogged, as the [Scott] Morrison government's abolition of four portfolios officially take effect, with an expected cost of $80 million.”

noun

1. (UK, colloquial)A cat.

   “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.”

2. (Canada, Newfoundland)A traditional soft cookie made with molasses, spices, dried fruits, and toasted pecans.

   “Nan made a batch of fresh mogs for Christmas—rich with molasses and full of raisins.”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of Machinery of Government.
4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Magh.