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went moggy

went moggy is the simple past 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 went moggy

What is went moggy the simple past of?
Went moggy is the simple past of go moggy.

Words near went moggy in the dictionary

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

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