Meaning of Gog | Babel Free

Definitions

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. Synonym of North Walian: a person from North Wales.
   UK, slang
3. Haste; ardent desire to go.
   obsolete, uncountable
4. Replacement for the word God when swearing, forming vulgar minced oaths originating in the 14th century: by Gog’s wounds, Gog’s bread...
   obsolete

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Examples

“Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going, I would not stay for all the world.”

“By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […]”

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