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English
Etymology
Derived from the Unimog, a brand of rugged four-wheel drive trucks popular in rural areas of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Pronunciation
Verb
go moggy (third-person singular simple present goes moggy, present participle going moggy, simple past went moggy, past participle gone moggy)
- (chiefly South Africa, Zimbabwe, idiomatic, colloquial) To go without restraint; to go wild; to be adventurous.
- (chiefly South Africa, Zimbabwe, idiomatic, colloquial) To go crazy; to be somewhat delirious.
2002, Dan Wylie, Dead leaves: Two years in the Rhodesian War, →ISBN, page 79:B: "That's a bad place, I tell you, I nearly went moggy in that jungle, hey."
A: "That's only because you got that bump on the head, when that bus ran over ..."
- (chiefly South Africa, Zimbabwe, idiomatic, colloquial) (usually in the past tense, as in "gone moggy") To become broken, disorganized or dysfunctional.