▪ I. mugget1
(ˈmʌgɪt)
Forms: 6 muguet, 6–9 mugwet, 9 mugget.
[a. F. muguet (in mod. use lily of the valley and woodruff), semi-popular ad. med.L. muscātum ‘musk-scented’, f. musc-us musk. Cf. OF. muguete nutmeg, ad. (nux) muscāta.]
A name given to several plants: a. petty mugget (mugwet), maid's hair, or yellow bedstraw, Galium verum. b. golden mugget, crosswort, Galium Cruciata. c. Woodruff, Asperula odorata. d. The lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis, e. The guelder rose, Viburnum Opulus.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. lxxv. 539 In French, Petit Muguet... We may also name it Pety Muguet. Ibid. lxxvii. 541 In high Douche, Golden Walmaister, that is, Golden Muguet. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxlviii. 968 In English our Ladies Bedstraw, Cheese renning, Maides Haire, and petie Mugwet. Ibid., Table Eng. Names, Mugwet, that is Woodroofe. 1665 Lovell Herbal (ed. 2) 292 Mug-wet, see Woodroof. Petty mugwet, see Ladies bedstraw. 1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sk. (ed. 3) 117 ‘Mugget’ is also the local name for the guelder rose. |
▪ II. mugget2 Obs. exc. dial. (see E.D.D.).
(ˈmʌgɪt)
Forms: 5 pl. mog(g)hettis, 6 moget, moquet, 6–8 mugwet, 8–9 muggut, 9 muggat, muggett, 7– mugget.
[Of obscure origin; it is difficult to regard it as an application of prec.]
1. The intestines of a calf or sheep, as an article of food. Also = gather-bag.
| 1481 Caxton Reynard xxxii. (Arb.) 92 The moghettis, Lyuer longes and the Inward [of the calf] shal be for your chyldren. c 1550 Lacy Wyl Bucke's Test. A iij, For the thrid course of the bucke. The potage Mogets and Nowmbleis stued [etc.]. Ibid. B j, For to dight the Moget. 1575 Turberv. Venerie 39 The gatherbagge or Mugwet of a yong harte. 1578 Lyte Dodoens v. xviii. 572 Like the Moquet or Chauden of a Calfe. 1605 in Archæologia (1800) XIII. 370 Calves-plucke. Calves Mugget. Calves Foote. 1791 Wolcot (P. Pindar) Remonstr. Wks. 1812 II. 452 I'm a poor botching tailor for a court Low bred on liver and what Clowns call mugget. 1864 E. Cornw. Words in Jrnl. R. Inst. Cornw. Mar. 18, Muggets, the small entrails; chitterlings. |
† 2. A dish made from the ‘mugget’ of a calf or sheep. Obs. rare.
| 1596 Gd. Huswiues Jewell C 5, To make muggets. First perboyle them, and take white and chop them both togeather [etc.]. 1597 Ibid. ii. B iij, You may make a mugget of a Sheepe as these allowes bee, sauing you must put no mutton into it. 1677 Locke in Ld. King Life (Bohn) 134 At Bristol..taste..marrow puddings, cock ale metheglin white and red muggets. |
3. attrib.: mugget-pie (also muggety pie).
| 1696 Salmon Fam. Dict. (ed. 2) 212 Mugget Minced-Pye. Boil your Muggets tender, and being cold, mince them small; then put [etc.]. 1800 Archæologia XIII. 388 In Cornwall a Muggity Pye is a pye made of Calves intrails. |