moggy

noun

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.

   “Cockney slang... ‘moggies’ for cats.”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete, regional)Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman.

   “...expect not so fair an enemy as Cromwel, nor such fair quarter as now is given thee: Jockey, Jemmy, and Moggy thy she-souldier, must than all to the sword...”

   “...in another Hut, a parcel of Scoth Pedlars and their Moggies, Dancing a Highlanders Jig...”

3. (Midlands, Northern-England, derogatory, rare, regional)Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.

   “Moggy, a slattern, dressed out untidily: 'She did look a moggy.'”

   “At Ickwell Green... the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women).”

4. (Midlands, Northern-England, rare, regional)Synonym of scarecrow.
5. (Midlands, rare, regional)Synonym of calf.
6. (East-Midlands, dated)A mouse.
7. (Yorkshire)A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.

adj

1. (South-Africa, Zimbabwe, slang)Irrational, out of touch

   “Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.”