# mog

Pronunciation: US say "MAWG" /mɔɡ/; UK say "MOG" /mɒɡ/

## Verb

1. In slang, to outclass someone or something, especially by being far better-looking. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To be much better than someone or something, especially to look much better.
   - _Fans joked that the actor mogged every co-star he had ever worked with._
   - _Put on the tailored suit and you will mog at the wedding._
3. To move or walk, often slowly. *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: To go or walk somewhere, often slowly.
   - _The old dog mogged off toward the barn without looking back._
   - _Hunters still mog around these woods every fall._

## Noun

2. A cat. *(colloquial, UK)*
   - Simple: A cat, the small furry animal that many people keep as a pet.
   - _A scruffy ginger mog has been hanging around the bins behind the pub all week._
   - _Get that mog off the kitchen table before it eats the butter!_
4. A traditional cookie with a soft texture and a mixture of toasted pecans, dried fruit, molasses, and spices. *(dialectal, Canada, Newfoundland)*
   - Simple: A soft, sweet cookie made with molasses, spices, dried fruit, and pecans.
   - _Every December my aunt mails us a tin of mogs from St. John's._
   - _A good mog should be chewy, dark, and packed with raisins and pecans._

## Other meanings

- (verb) To transfer public servants or government functions to a different department in a Machinery of Government change, when an Australian government reorganizes its departments.
- (verb) In the card game costly colors, to give the dealer one of one's cards and take another back.

## Origin

**Meaning 1** — From AMOG ("alpha male of group"), a pick-up-artist term that became a verb in incel slang. It appeared on fitness forums and imageboards around 2016 and spread widely around 2021.
**Meaning 3** — Nobody knows where it comes from. Some have tentatively linked it to two words from Scottish dialect, muggins and mudge, the latter meaning "to move oneself, to stir".
**Meaning 2** — A clipping of moggie or moggy.
**Meaning 4** — A shortening of lassy mog, used in Newfoundland, Canada. Its origin is unknown; it is possibly from lassy (“molasses”) + a dialect shortening or variant of mug or morsel.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/mog (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).