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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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VOGIE, adj. Also vog(e)y, voggie, voguy (Edb. 1788 J. Macaulay Poems 113); vougy (Sc. 1719 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 125), vougey (Uls. 1844 R. Huddleston Poems 71), vowgie; vo(c)kie (ne.Sc. 1773 Weekly Mag. (25 Feb.) 274), vo(c)ky (Abd. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 345), vaukie (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl.), vouky, vowky, vyokie; wowgie (Cai. 1907 J. Horne County Cai, 87, Cai. 1960). [′vogi; ne.Sc. ′v(j)oke; Cai. ′wʌugi]

1. Proud, elated, very pleased with oneself, vain, vaunting (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Ayr. 1811 W. Aiton Agric. Ayr. 693; Kcb.⁴ 1900; Per. 1915 Wilson L. Strathearn 274); of things: imposing, grand, ostentatious. Also adv. Deriv. vokish, showy, swaggering.Sc. 1712 in J. Maclaurin Arguments (1774) 43:
So vocky he is of this petition, that all the coffeehouses have got it.Sc. 1722 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) III. 162:
Now ound, by a', to be a Bard, A wonder vogey Title!Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 120:
I'm vowky that I can ca' you my ain.Lnk. 1819 J. Baillie in Familiar Letters Sir W. Scott (Douglas 1894) II. 45:
I am, as we say in Clydesdale, very vogie of it, tho' I try to behave myself as modestly as may be.Sc. 1846 W. Tennant Muckomachy 38:
Then baith o' them, loud yelpin' Epps, And Annapel, now vogie vapourin'.Bnff. 1856 J. Collie Poems 141:
The richest nabob i' the land, Wha rides an' drives sae voggie, O.Ork. 1880 Dennison Sketch-Bk. 97:
They tell aboot a vokish lad, Wha meed a unco' wooin' o'd.Fif. 1883 W. D. Latto Bodkin Papers 62:
Tibbie was as vogie aboot it as if she had been the lady o' the land.Sc. 1945 Scots Mag. (April) 12:
Dearer to me the hous my forbears biggit, fine sheep-cropt gerss nor marbles dour and vogie.

2. Merry, gay, light-hearted, happy (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.; ‡Kcd. 1973). Also adv.Sc. c.1715 Hogg Jacobite Relics (1819) 81:
We took a spring, and danc'd a fling, A wow but we were vogie!Edb. 1772 Fergusson Poems (S.T.S.) II. 74:
I'll ay be vockie To part a fadge or girdle farl, Wi' Louden Jockie.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl 344:
Nae twasome thou didst ever see, Sae blythe and vogie.Edb. 1842 Whistle-Binkie 111:
Ye'll no fin' twa totums that cuddle mair vogie.Edb. 1843 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie viii.:
He lifts on high his vogie voice Their faggin spunks to rouse.Abd. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xviii.:
Gin it war lawfu' to be vyokie owre sairious maitters o' that kin'.ne.Sc. 1884 D. Grant Lays 99:
Aloft upon a barrel-head The fiddler sat fu' vogie.