vogie, a. Sc.
(ˈvəʊgɪ)
Also 8 vougy, 9 vogey.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. Vain, proud, conceited.
| 1719 Ramsay Epist. Hamilton Answ. ii. ii, ‘Whisht’, quoth the vougy jade. 1788 Burns My Hoggie 4 My only beast, I had nae mae, And vow but I was vogie! 1789 Ross Helenore (ed. 3) 112 Of your consent, he says, I'm mair nor fain, And vogie that I can ca' you my ain. 1830 Galt Lawrie T. vii. xi. (1849) 350, I was somewhat vogie of the valour I had shown her so handsomely off-hand. |
2. Merry, cheerful, delighted, gay.
| 1715 in Hogg Jacobite Relics (1819) 81 We took a spring, and danc'd a fling, And wow but we were vogie! a 1774 Fergusson Ode to Bee Poems (1845) 18 The Muse Scuds ear' and heartsome owre the dews, Fu' vogie and fu' blythe to crap The winsome flowers frae nature's lap. 1822 Galt Provost xlii, Many among us thought..that we had got a great catch, and they were both blythe and vogie when he was chosen. 1896 in Proudlock Borderland Muse 323 He's harmless as yon vogie lamb That loups beside its sleeping dam. |