a. Sc. 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), 8. 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.
