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gone moggy

gone moggy is the past participle of go moggy.

Meaning of go 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.

Questions about gone moggy

What is gone moggy the past participle of?
Gone moggy is the past participle of go moggy.

Words near gone moggy in the dictionary

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

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