Lexicographical Neighbors of Mochy
Literary usage of Mochy
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)
"II. moist, that it is mochy weather ; and of every thing else in a similar way,
... Enc. It should be observed, that mochy is not applied to mist ..."
2. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by Great Britain Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1890)
"... I have harde iij or iiij say be hem as mochy or thes that a can not flavor
the worde of God. ..."
3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1894)
"The evening was mild and very moist—what wo call "mochy" hereabouts —and just as
we got on to the level ground at the outside of a moss of perhaps six acres ..."
4. The Master Problem by James Marchant (1917)
"One of the alleged agents, according to Mr. Smith, is ' mochy ' G., who forfeited
his bail last year when arrested on the charge of being involved in the ..."
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