Lexicographical Neighbors of Mochie
Literary usage of Mochie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"MOCH, mochie, adj. 1. Moist, damp ; applied to animal food, corn in the stack,
... mochie, adj. Filled with moths, ibid. Hence the proverbial rhyme ; —" The ..."
2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1826)
"1 native doctor, 1 native farrier, and 1 mochie, effective. For each Native Troop.
1 staff serjeant. NB The present quarter.master serj. allowed to the ..."
3. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1826)
"1 saddler, and 1 pay- 1 staff Serjeant, 2 rough riders, and 2 serjeant, non-effective.
— 1 native doctor, 1 native farrier, and I mochie, effective. ..."
4. The History of the Church Missionary Society: Its Environment, Its Men and by Eugene Stock (1899)
"The mochie Christians sent their delegates, and an outbreak of bitter feeling
immediately ensued. The rest would neither sit down to eat if they ate at the ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"Thick, close, hazy ; as, "a mochie day," a hot misty day, S. .Modi, adj., is now
obsolete. Nae .inn shines there, the mochie air Wi' ..."
6. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"Miege has moky, which he makes synonymous with cloudy as moky weather, un temps
convert, this seems to be synonymous also with the SCOTCH, mochie. ..."
7. Dialect of Craven, in the Westriding of the County of York: With a Copious by William Carr (1828)
"Miege has moky, which he makes synonymous with cloudy as moky weather, un temps
convert, this seems to be synonymous also with the SCOTCH, mochie. ..."
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