Definition of "moggy"

moggy

/ˈmɒ.ɡi/

noun
plural moggies
1. (Scotland and Northern England regional, obsolete) Synonym of girl: a female child or young woman.
  Quotations
  ...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...
  1648, William Lilly, An Astrologicall Prediction of the Occurrances in England, Part of the Yeers 1648, 1649, 1650, page 60
  ...in another Hut, a parcel of Scoth Pedlars and their Moggies,Dancing a Highlanders Jig...
  1699, Edward Ward, The London Spy, volume I, page 15
2. (Midlands and Northern England regional, derogatory, rare) Synonym of slattern: an unkempt or badly-dressed woman.
  Quotations
  Moggy, a slattern, dressed out untidily: 'She did look a moggy.'
  1886, Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire, s.v. "moggy"
  At Ickwell Green... the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women).
  1980, Automobile Association, Book of British Villages, page 263
3. (Midlands and Northern England regional, rare) Synonym of scarecrow.
4. (Midlands regional, rare) Synonym of calf.
5. (UK) A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.
  Quotations
  Cockney slang... ‘moggies’ for cats.
  1911, John William Horsley, I Remember: Memories of a 'Sky Pilot' in the Prison and the Slum, page 254
6. (Yorkshire) A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.