1926 A. E. Chesterton In Darkest London vi. 101 Some ‘lodgers’ wore wisps of sad-looking fur—‘perfectly good mog’, as a cheery match-seller described it. I don't know the origin of the name, but to me, it is an admirable synonym for an article of adornment highly cherished by the most destitute among my sex.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 26 [Schoolboy slang] Tike for dog, moke for donkey,..mog for cat were quite usual.

1934 P. Heseltine in C. Gray Peter Warlock iii. i. 253 Such lovely mogs you can't imagine—including the best cat in the world, surely.

1950 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday (ed. 3) iii. iii. 247 Annuvver 'orse comes up, an' it's..a new mog fer the missus.

1999 Your Garden June 52 High walls..did nothing to deter one particular mog from..doing some serious damage to his soft shield ferns.

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) 89 You must deal off three a piece, and turn up the next Card following; then the Eldest is to take his choice whether he will Mogg (this is change a Card or no).

1883 C. S. Burne Folk-lore 648 The cards being dealt, the first player asks the dealer if he will ‘mog’, i.e. exchange a card with him... When four persons are playing, opposite partners mog with each other.

1924 M. Webb Precious Bane vi. 114 She..stood by the fire, telling us about the game of Costly Colours—how you counted, and of the trumps, and how three of a suit was a prial, and four of a suit was Costly, and how you could mog, or change, your cards.

1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. ix. 82 Get on board thy rotten ship; The rest, I hope, will scorn to mog off, And dim my day-lights, if I'll jog off.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 363 ‘Mug on!’ ‘Wean't mug a bit’.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Maug, to walk away. ‘Maug off with you.’

1969 J. Stevenson Nearest & Dearest 3rd Ser. (transcript of TV programme) (O.E.D. archive) Stan I'll be seeing you on Monday. Nellie I'll look forward to that all over the weekend. Mog off!

1857 J. T. Staton Bobby Shuttle 5 Aw mogged up eawt oth loom-shop into th' heawse.

1873 W. Carleton Farm Ballads 52 He..mogged along to the door-way, with never a word of row.

1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 359 As our horses were thirsty and footsore, we ‘mogged along’.

1927 Amer. Speech 3 139 A neighbor often said ‘well, I must be mogging along,’ mog meaning to move slowly, to depart.

1938 B. C. Damon Grandma called it Carnal 262 They mogged slowly all the way home in a delicate silence.

1989 H. F. Mosher Stranger in Kingdom 16 Val..rolled her eyes toward the ceiling and mogged back out to the kitchen.

1867 Geauga Democrat 24 Apr. 1/2 He..complained of Hutchison for threatening to ‘mog’ him... Judge Tod..said, ‘Mog him—what does that mean?’—Hutchison..says,..‘It means to make a man go where he don't want to, and damned quick, too.’

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Mog, to move from one place to another... ‘Tell John to mog the cows i' the mornin'.’

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Mog,..(2) to make to go, remove. Speaking of some one who had honestly restored to her some belongings, a woman said, ‘Many a one 'ud ha' mogged 'em off.’

1894 H. Frederic Marsena 200 Well, then, mog your boots out of this as quick as ever you can.