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ecog

ecog is the alternative form of egad.

Meaning of egad

Interjection

  1. (dated) A mild exclamation of contempt, surprise, outrage, etc.
    • O here a' comes—Ah my Hector of Troy, vvelcome my Bully, my Back; agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 11

Noun capitalized: ECoG

ECoG

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of electrocorticography.
    • Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex...2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of electrocorticogram.

Proper noun capitalized: ECOG

ECOG

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group.

Questions about ecog

What is ecog the alternative form of?
Ecog is the alternative form of egad.
What part of speech is ecog?
Ecog can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ecog in the dictionary

  1. ecofreak
  2. ecofreaks
  3. ecofriendliness
  4. ecofriendly
  5. ecofunctional
  6. ecog
  7. ecogenetics
  8. ecogenomic
  9. ecogenomics
  10. ecogenotoxicological
  11. ecogenotoxicology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ecog (page history and authors); ECoG (page history and authors); ECOG (page history and authors); egad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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