Gog
name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Haste; ardent desire to go. obsolete, uncountable
"Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going, I would not stay for all the world."
- 2 Synonym of North Walian: a person from North Wales. UK, slang
Proper Noun
- 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... obsolete
"By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […]"
Example
More examples"Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going, I would not stay for all the world."
Etymology
Etymology 1
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”).
Etymology 2
From Biblical Hebrew גּוֹג (Gōg).
Etymology 3
From Welsh Gog.
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