mogging
mogging is the present participle and gerund of mog.
Noun
mogging
- The act or habit of being significantly more attractive than someone or something; a domination in appearance.
- The act or habit of being superior to someone or something.
Meaning of mog
Verb (1)
mog (third-person singular simple present mogs, present participle mogging, simple past and past participle mogged)
- 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.
- 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
Verb (2)
mog (third-person singular simple present mogs, present participle mogging, simple past and past participle mogged)
- To move or walk slowly; to trudge, amble; (more broadly) to go.
- to mog about
- 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
- 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
Verb (3)
mog (third-person singular simple present mogs, present participle mogging, simple past and past participle mogged)
- 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
Questions about mogging
- What does mogging mean?
- Mogging means the act or habit of being significantly more attractive than someone or something; a domination in appearance.
- What is mogging the present participle and gerund of?
- Mogging is the present participle and gerund of mog.
- What part of speech is mogging?
- Mogging is a noun.
Words near mogging in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mogging (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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