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† ˈGogmaˌgog Obs.
[f. Goemagot, the greatest of the British giants, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth; altered after the biblical names Gog and Magog (Ezek. xxxviii–xxxix).]
A giant, a man of immense stature and strength.
[c1205Lay. 1806 Geomagog..Godes wiðer-saka. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 508 Gogmagog was a geant, suiþe gret & strong. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1763 Gogmagog..was strong, gret, & bold. 1559Mirr. Mag., Owen Glendour xxiii, Affirming Henry to be Gogmagog.] c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears iii. iii. in Archiv Stud. d. neu. Spr. (1897), Harpyes, Gogmagogs, lemures. 1605Tryall Chev. ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 289 And thou hast under thy charge any other then Pigmies I am a Gogmagog. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Laugh & be Fat Wks. ii. 73/1 Thy booke he titles Gogmogog the huge.
Hence † Gogmaˈgotical a., as huge as Gogmagog (Gogmagot).
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Laugh & be Fat Wks. ii. 69 In a huge volume Gogmagoticall. |