Moggy vs Margaret - What's the difference?
moggy | margaret |
(chiefly, British, slang) a domestic non-pedigree (mongrel) cat
(UK) the moorhen
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* 1590 William Shakespeare: First Part of King Henry the Sixth: Act V, Scene V (the closing lines):
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Cottage Names :
* 1868 Bentley's Miscellany, London. p.417:
* 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 292:
A river of southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of .
A river of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law.
(astronomy) A moon of Uranus, named for a character in .
* 2009 , Richard Schmude, Jr., Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them ,
* 2012 , Peter Bond, Exploring the Solar System ,
* 2013 , David A. J. Seargent, Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond ,
Moggy is a see also of margaret.
moggy
English
Alternative forms
* moggieNoun
(wikipedia moggy) (moggies)Coordinate terms
* muttHypernyms
* mongrelReferences
margaret
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
- But I will rule both her, the king, and realm.
- Margaret , Marguerite - the pearl! the daisy! Oh name of romance and of minstrelsy, which brings the days of chivalry to mind, and the worship of flowers and ladies fair!
- Amongst us English, the name is a greater favourite than with any other nation: but we have played upon it, and abused it oftener too. In no language does Margaret sound sweeter or homelier than in ours: not so Mag, Maggie, Meg, Madge, Moggie, Peg, Peggy, and abominable Piggy, of which abridgements only the two first are defensible.
- The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn. There was also a girl named Margaret', named after her grandmother, who worked at the post office. I ended up talking with ' Margaret .
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- Astronomers discovered nine small moons lying outside the orbit of Oberon (Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret , Prospero, Setebos, and Ferdinand) between 1997 and 2003.
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- The odd one out is Margaret , which travels in a "normal" prograde direction, though it has the most eccentric orbit of all the Uranian satellites.
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- ' Margaret takes about 4.6 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the planet.