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Gogmagog

Gogmagog proper noun: 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.

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]

Forms of Gogmagog

alternative formGoemagot
alternative formGoemot

Origin of Gogmagog

Often connected to the Biblical characters Gog and Magog. However, Manley Pope, author of an 1862 English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd, argued that it was a corruption of Welsh Gawr Madoc (Madoc the Giant).

Questions about Gogmagog

What does Gogmagog mean?
Gogmagog means 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.
What part of speech is Gogmagog?
Gogmagog is a proper noun.

Words near Gogmagog in the dictionary

  1. gogglings
  2. goggly
  3. gogl-mogl
  4. goglet
  5. goglets
  6. Gogmagog
  7. gogo
  8. Gogo-Yimidjir
  9. gogobera
  10. gogoberas
  11. gogol

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