moeg, adjective

Origin:
Afrikaans.
colloquial
Tired, weary.
Note:
Common in speech.
1920 R.Y. Stormberg Mrs Pieter de Bruyn 49Ek’s jolly moeg, but my powers of endurance are steadily growing, glad to say.
1969 A. Fugard Boesman & Lena 3I’ll keep on walking. I’ll walk and walk..until you’re so bloody moeg that when I stop you can’t open your mouth!
1975 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)I feel so moeg today: it must be the heat.
1985 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)I’d like to walk in the evening after we close the shop, but I’m too moeg.
Tired, weary.
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