Gogmagog

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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.

OriginWelsh Gawr Madoc →
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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Goemagot · alternative Goemot

  1. human sciencesA 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]

Origin

  1. WelshGawr Madoc
  2. EnglishGogmagog

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).

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APA

Gogmagog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gogmagog

MLA

“Gogmagog.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gogmagog. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gogmagog,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gogmagog.

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