an unattached schoolteacher who lives in a London flat with a moggy as her only companion
Recent Examples on the WebTrucker reunited with cat A US trucker was reunited with his cat after the moggy fled from his vehicle during a pit stop at a truck stop in Nevada.—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024 Diodorus Siculus, a Greek author who wrote in the first century A.D., recounts the tale of a Roman soldier who made the mistake of killing a sacred moggy in Egypt.—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
probably from Moggy, from Mog, nickname from the name Margaret
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