Word of the Day: GOGMAGOG


ETYMOLOGY
from Goemagot, the greatest of the British giants, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth;
altered after the biblical names Gog and Magog


EXAMPLE
“…Gogmagog was a geant · suiþe gret & strong
Vor aboute an twenti vet · me seiþ he was long
…”

From: The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, c1325

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