Re: MOQ = cat



o8TY (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
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> - if indeed the word moggy derives from the Latin MOQ.

The version of the story that I've heard is that the moggie was originally
the mouse, and the word transferred to the cat since a cat brought in
specifically to see the little critters off, would be referred to as a
moggie-cat.
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