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Goemagot

Goemagot is the alternative form of Gogmagog.

Meaning of Gogmagog

Proper noun

Gogmagog

  1. A legendary giant in Welsh and later English folklore, said to have been a giant inhabitant of Albion who was thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus, a companion of Brutus of Troy.
    • It’s funny enough now, but it wasn’t funny then, for I got in such a state that I believed, actually believed, that Fauns lived in a certain double hedgerow near the Gog Magogs, and one evening I walked a mile sooner than go through it alone.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VII [Uniform ed., p. 86]

Questions about Goemagot

What is Goemagot the alternative form of?
Goemagot is the alternative form of Gogmagog.

Words near Goemagot in the dictionary

  1. Goeller
  2. Goellers
  3. goels
  4. Goelz
  5. Goelzes
  6. Goemagot
  7. Goemai
  8. goemin
  9. Goemot
  10. Goen
  11. Goens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Goemagot (page history and authors); Gogmagog (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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