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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 21 December 08 23:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi:  so no-one lives near Tamworth in Staffordshire?!

In Tamworth, believe it or not, a moggie is a mouse!!

You do get some funny looks when you talk about your pet moggie.

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 21 December 08 23:35 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #20 on: Monday 22 December 08 00:29 GMT (UK) »
Yep - In South Yorkshire (or at least around Doncaster) in the early 60s, a moggie was both - a cat and a mouse. Makes for an interesting chase.
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #21 on: Monday 22 December 08 08:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
The word Moggie/moggy apparently was first used to describe old cows according to the below article( don't know how true it is) and may come from the name Margaret.

I use moggie  to describe  mongrel cats and of course the Morris Minor. It mentions in the article that it is used for mouse too
Just a wee tad here is the article:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moggy
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #22 on: Monday 22 December 08 09:05 GMT (UK) »
Moggie:

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #23 on: Monday 22 December 08 19:16 GMT (UK) »
When asking "what is for dinner the Lancashire answer was "Pigs bum and cabbage". or an alternative  the rude word for muck with sugar on.

Moggie depends on where you live,  In South of Lancashire its a mouse,  in North of Lancashire its a cat.

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #24 on: Monday 22 December 08 19:55 GMT (UK) »
Ad I'd never come across the term moggie meeting mouse until I came to live in Tamworth, I assumed it was very local.  Now realise that it is widespread!  We all learn something every day  :-[

Dancing Master - my grandmother always, when asked what is for dinner, replied "chums".  West Riding ?

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #25 on: Monday 22 December 08 21:26 GMT (UK) »
Im Starved,

any idea what that means here in Shropshire?

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #26 on: Monday 22 December 08 21:48 GMT (UK) »
I'm starved means I'm cold  or at least it does in north herefordshire
pembrokeshire Coates,Rees, Williams
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herefordshire Jones page savager price carwardine
radnorshire Rees savager Jones
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