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magot
[ ma-goh, mah-, mag-uht ]
magot
/ ˈmæɡət; mɑːˈɡəʊ /
noun
- a Chinese or Japanese figurine in a crouching position, usually grotesque
- a less common name for Barbary ape
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Word History and Origins
Origin of magot1
First recorded in 1600–10; from French, Middle French, alteration of Magog, a people seduced by Satan in Revelation 20:8; used figuratively in non-Christian medieval legends, and probably applied derisively to the apes in allusion to their supposed grotesqueness; Magog ( def )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of magot1
C17: from French: grotesque figure, after the Biblical giant Magog
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Example Sentences
The magot, which is a very common animal in Upper Egypt, as well as in Barbary, was known to the ancients.
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The orang-outang, and the gibbon, are very different from the pithecos and the magot.
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The magot has no tail, though he has a small portion of skin, which has some appearance of one.
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The magot is sometimes known as the Barbary ape, although of course it is not really an ape at all.
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Old Osmond Crooke shall lend thee his bow, and thy quarry shall be yon magot-pie.'
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