Gog
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Gog
Ultimately from Hebrew Gōgh, of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Together with Adam Kucharski, also from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, I have recently collaborated with the BBC on a massive citizen science project, led by Professor Julia Gog from Cambridge University.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2020
His hero, Gog, is a giant washed ashore naked on the Scottish coast near Edinburgh just after V-E day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brought up to date by the English novelist, playwright and historian, Andrew Sinclair, Gog and Magog come to signify the haunting memory and failing desire of a geratic Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speculation suggests that in Gog and Magog he is trying to make explicit the evil and good in man, a Manichaean notion that influenced Robert Louis Stevenson in writing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, Gog preferred to count in groups of five rather than four, and people all over the world shared Gog’s preference.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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