Word.ws English Dictionary

go moggy

go moggy verb: to go without restraint; to go wild; to be adventurous.

Verb

go moggy (third-person singular simple present goes moggy, present participle going moggy, simple past went moggy, past participle gone moggy)

  1. (South Africa, Zimbabwe, colloquial, idiomatic) To go without restraint; to go wild; to be adventurous.
  2. (South Africa, Zimbabwe, colloquial, idiomatic) To go crazy; to be somewhat delirious.
    • B: "That's a bad place, I tell you, I nearly went moggy in that jungle, hey."
      A: "That's only because you got that bump on the head, when that bus ran over ..."2002, Dan Wylie, Dead leaves: Two years in the Rhodesian War, →ISBN, page 79
  3. (South Africa, Zimbabwe, colloquial, idiomatic) (usually in the past tense, as in "gone moggy") To become broken, disorganized or dysfunctional.

Forms of go moggy

third-person singular presentgoes moggy
present participlegoing moggy
pastwent moggy
past participlegone moggy

Origin of go moggy

Derived from the Unimog, a brand of rugged four-wheel drive trucks popular in rural areas of South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Questions about go moggy

What does go moggy mean?
Go moggy means to go without restraint; to go wild; to be adventurous.
What part of speech is go moggy?
Go moggy is a verb.
What is the past tense of go moggy?
The past tense of go moggy is went moggy.

Words near go moggy in the dictionary

  1. go like a dream
  2. go long
  3. go mad
  4. go mental
  5. go missing
  6. go moggy
  7. go nap
  8. go nap on
  9. go narrow
  10. go native
  11. go negative

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go moggy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-au-go moggy.ogg.

Cite this entry: “go moggy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/go_moggy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.