English Explanatory Dictionary

gog

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Haste; ardent desire to go.
name
  1. Gog and Magog, a figure (or two figures) mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Ezekiel 38 and 39, and variously identified by later writers with Satan or certain hostile nations. (See Revelation 20:8.)
  2. Replacement for the word God when swearing, forming vulgar minced oaths originating in the 14th century: by Gog’s wounds, Gog’s bread...
noun
  1. Synonym of North Walian: a person from North Wales.

Word forms

gog Gogs

Etymology

Likely from agog; it appeared first as on gog. Attested from the 16th to 18th centuries. Compare French gogue (“sprightliness”), and Welsh gogi (“to agitate, shake”).

Synonyms

North Walian

Related words

king of the north
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