gog

noun — 2 senses

gog

nounalso spelled Gog

Etymology Likely from agog; it appeared first as on gog. Attested from the 16th to 18th centuries. Compare French gogue (“sprightliness”), and Welsh gogi (“to agitate, shake”).

Obsolete Haste; ardent desire to go.

Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going, I would not stay for all the world.1812 [1639], John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money”, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, page 65:

Gog

noun

Etymology From Welsh Gog.

UK, Slang Synonym of North Walian: a person from North Wales.

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