moggy

Meaning

Noun

• Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman.
• Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.
• Synonym of scarecrow.
• Synonym of calf.
• A domestic cat, especially a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.
• A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.

Origin

• Unknown, but probably originally Mog + -y, a Scots or Northern English variant of maggie, from Maggie, a diminutive of Margaret and Margery. First attested in reference to mongrel cats in Cockney.