What's the difference between moggy and moorhen?

Moggy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Docked 44 points from last season's total Luciano Moggi ex-Juventus general manager banned for five years Andrea Della Valle president of Juventus banned for four years Claudio Lotito Lazio president, banned for three years Adriano Galliani Milan's vice-president, one-year ban Italy's Champions League entrants Internazionale, Roma, Chievo and Palermo Uefa Cup entrants Livorno, Parma and Empoli
  • (2) Luciano Moggi, the Juventus general manager at the centre of the affair, was banned from football for five years and the former president of the Italian federation, Franco Carraro, was excluded for 4½ years for failing to stop this rot at the very heart of the game.
  • (3) Crucially the Highland wildcat is a member of the first of these subspecies while the domestic moggie that sleeps on your sofa and squawks for food in your kitchen is a member of the Middle Eastern subspecies.
  • (4) Moggi and other Juventus executives were accused of arranging for amenable referees and assistants to officiate at games involving the Turin club and at those involving other teams considered allies.
  • (5) The nine-year-old moggy sports the formal black cap worn by all employees of Wakayama Electric Railway and is addressed by her official title of stationmaster.
  • (6) I'm even suspicious of the sleeping moggy in Eisenman's painting.

Moorhen


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though waterbirds, including moorhens and gulls, live on the margins, and a thin scum of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors.
  • (2) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
  • (3) Already the floodplain has attracted Canada geese, ducks, moorhens, and drag onflies.
  • (4) Wendy Moorhen, deputy chair of the Richard III Society, said while they acknowledged "the sincerity" of the Plantagenet Alliance case, further arguments over the king's final resting place "can only be counterproductive to the solemnity of the reburial".
  • (5) None of 12 dusky moorhens (Gallinula tenebrosa) were infected.

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