Alternative form of もがく

A place name. / a surname

(often attributive) underwater

seaweed, aquatic plant / algae

alga, algae / seaweed

adds emphasis to verbs

to scratch (e.g one's head) / (non-productive) Dummy verb for various nouns.

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend