Lexicographical Neighbors of Mogging
Literary usage of Mogging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... part. adj.; as ' Don't let's go trolly - mogging about any longer.' Truck, sb.
Intercourse, dealing. ' Yd' 'ave no truck wi' Jack ; he's no good to ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"Ordinarily the term is understood to refer only to mogging or whipping of the body.
The authority of the husband, parent, guardian, and schoolmaster to ..."
3. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"... as ' Don't let's go trolly- mogging about any longer.' Truck, 60. Intercourse,
dealing. ' Y5' 'ave no truck wi' Jack ; he's no good to anybody. ..."
4. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Hold your blab," is a frequent reproof to a noisy, chattering person. Wit hung
her blob. e'en Humour seem'd to mourn, And sullenly sat mogging o'er his urn. ..."
5. School of the Woods: Some Life Studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Trainingby William Joseph Long by William Joseph Long (1902)
"... and the long hair standing straight up along her back in a terrifying bristle.
" Stand not upon the order of your mogging, but mog at once ..."
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