mog

1. (intransitive, US, UK, dialectal) To move or walk slowly; to trudge, amble; (more broadly) to go.Examples: "to mog about"; "to mog off"; "They marched, grumbling and threatening, but Sile never paid a bit of attention. He just mogged on behind, and every time one of them turned, he wiggled his gun, and that was enough."UKUSdialectalintransitive

2. (transitive, US, UK, dialectal, rare) To cause to move; to drive.Examples: "'Tell John to mog the cows i' in the mornin'—it's time as they wenten i' the Cote Leasnow.'"; ""I've been directed here to find Miss Susan Pike," the man outside explained, between fresh coughings. ¶ "Well, then, mog your boots out of this as quick as ever you can!" my Aunt replied, with great promptitude. "You won't find her here!""UKUSdialectalraretransitive

3. (transitive, intransitive) In the game of costly colours: to exchange (a card) with the dealer.Examples: "Mogging or Changing. The cards being dealt, the first player asks the dealer if he will mog, i. e. exchange a card with him. Should he refuse, the challenger scores 1. […] If the opposite partners do not mog, the dealer has the privilege of mogging with the 'deck,' which he does by taking the card next under the trump and substituting in its place one out of his own hand."intransitivetransitive

1. (UK, colloquial) A cat.Examples: "Get that mog out of here!"; "The more I hear about Larry the Downing Street cat, the more his story becomes an allegory for our time. As previously reported, the reputation of this mog was trashed by Downing Street spin doctors after he was brought in to clear the Prime Minister’s workplace of mice in 2011."; "Ulysses the cat is the real breakout star of the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis. He's not the first feline scene-stealer, though - here are ten other great cats in film (animated mogs excluded)"UKcolloquial

1. (transitive, Australia, informal) To remove (a public servant) from their position following a Machinery of Government change, a process in which the Government of Australia reorganizes the responsibilities and structure of the government.Examples: "The slowdown in house purchases prior to an election is natural, but not because public servant buyers are skittish about the political climate. They just don't want to watch the ink dry on their sale on a house in Tuggeranong, close to their department, only to be comprehensively mogged and presented with a commute to another building in faraway Belconnen - or worse, Gosford."; "[Kevin] Rudd, [Peter] Coaldrake and [Glyn] Davis joined [Wayne] Goss, [Tom] Burns and Treasurer Keith De Lacy on the Machinery of Government (MOG) Committee that reviewed the reports of the PSMC (and led to the idiom that people had been 'mogged')."; "But recently under a machinery of government change, with the centralisation of the cybersecurity function under Alastair MacGibbon, that team has been mogged out from the DTA."Australiainformaltransitive

1. (Canada, Newfoundland) A traditional soft cookie made with molasses, spices, dried fruits, and toasted pecans.Examples: "Nan made a batch of fresh mogs for Christmas—rich with molasses and full of raisins."CanadaNewfoundland