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mog

/mɒɡ/US/mɔɡ/

mog verb: to manifest effortless dominance through self-evident superior handsomeness, especially with composure and by quiet comparison.

Verb (1)

mog (third-person singular simple present mogs, present participle mogging, simple past and past participle mogged)

  1. (Internet, intransitive, stative, transitive, especially incel slang) To manifest effortless dominance through self-evident superior handsomeness, especially with composure and by quiet comparison.
    • He mogged him just by standing next to him.
    • His face mogs mine to hell and back.
  2. (Internet, broadly, stative, transitive) To be superior to (something); to beat, outclass.
    • You live on an alternate world I take it? Joker mogs any MCU film. Batman will too.2022 January 2, @AceX_50, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024
    • Hyderabad is enough to mog any Pakistani city in infrastructure.2023 July 6, @btarunr, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024

Verb (2)

mog (third-person singular simple present mogs, present participle mogging, simple past and past participle mogged)

  1. (UK, US, dialectal, intransitive) To move or walk slowly; to trudge, amble; (more broadly) to go.
    • to mog about
    • to mog off
  2. (UK, US, dialectal, rare, transitive) To cause to move; to drive.
    • 'Tell John to mog the cows i' in the mornin'—it's time as they wenten i' the Cote Leasnow.'1879, Georgina F[rederica] Jackson, “MOG”, in Shropshire Word-Book, a Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc. Used in the County, London: Trübner & Co, page 285
    • "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!"1894, Harold Frederic, “My Aunt Susan”, in Marsena and Other Stories of the Wartime, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 200
  3. (intransitive, transitive) In the game of costly colours: to exchange (a card) with the dealer.
    • 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...1886, Georgina F[rederica] Jackson, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, Shropshire Folk-Lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings, London: Trübner & Co., page 648

Noun (1)

mog (plural mogs)

  1. (UK, colloquial) A cat.
    • 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 2011.2013 October 18, Andy McSmith, “Andy McSmith's Diary: Even Larry the cat is not safe from factions in Downing Street”, in The Independent, London: Independent Digital News & Media Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Verb (3)

mog (third-person singular simple present mogs, present participle mogging, simple past and past participle mogged)

  1. (Australia, informal, transitive) 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.
    • 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...2013 October 1, “The public service guide to getting mogged”, in The Canberra Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2023
    • [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').[2014, Patrick Weller, Kevin Rudd: Twice Prime Minister, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, →ISBN, page 56

Noun (2)

mog (plural mogs)

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

Noun (3) capitalized: MoG

MoG (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Machinery of Government.

Noun (4) capitalized: Mog

Mog (plural Mogs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Magh.

Examples of mog in a sentence

  • This youngshit mogs me: I'm such a hon.
  • Seriously, whenever I'm on campus, I just get mogged to fucking oblivion.2018 August 30, u/ATrashcanInHumanForm, “How can I cope when I'm constantly mogged by gods among men?”, in Reddit, archived from the...
  • Elliot Rodger mogs pretty much everyone.2020 March 17, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer:
  • Jordan Peterson totally blew his big moment of cultural relevancy and celebrity by getting mogged by [Slavoj] Zizek, becoming a pillhead and eating too much meat.2021 February 23, @Votto007, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
  • It's so funny when people misgender me because I mog like 75% of cis women2022 September 4, @princessyntheia, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2022:

All 20 example sentences with mog

Forms of mog

Verb
third-person singular presentmogs
present participlemogging
past participlemogged
pastmogged
Noun
pluralmogs
pluralMogs

Origin of mog

Derived from AMOG (“alpha male of group”) perhaps influenced by mug (i.e. in mug shot). The word first appeared on fitness forums and imageboards around 2016 and was popularized around 2021.

Unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary tentatively suggests a connection to the Scottish dialect terms mudge (“to move oneself; to stir”) and muggins.

Clipping of moggie or moggy.

Words formed from mog

Words that rhyme with mog

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Questions about mog

What does mog mean?
Mog means to manifest effortless dominance through self-evident superior handsomeness, especially with composure and by quiet comparison.
How do you use mog in a sentence?
This youngshit mogs me: I'm such a hon.
What part of speech is mog?
Mog can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce mog?
Mog is pronounced /mɒɡ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of mog?
The past tense of mog is mogged.

Words near mog in the dictionary

  1. MOFU
  2. mofussil
  3. Mofussilite
  4. Mofussilites
  5. mofussils
  6. mog
  7. moga
  8. Mogadishan
  9. Mogadishans
  10. Mogadishu
  11. Mogadishu line

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mog (page history and authors); MoG (page history and authors); Mog (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.

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