going moggy

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.