- to trudge laboriously through snow. Somehow, to mogs carries both the silence of snow and the effort of plodding through it: … mogsan heem [home] At’rou’ [through] the snaw wi’ hungry weem [belly] (Walter Dennison The Orcadian Sketch-Book 1880).
She spun me lies, did the tinkler wife, But the roads slept under the snaw An’ misery mogsed knee-deep in her een [eyes], So I couldna drive her awa’ (Weekly Scotsman 6 April 1929).