gog

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  1. Activity; eager or impatient desire (to do something). Or, at the least, yt setts the harte on gogg. Gascoigne, Griefe of Joye. Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going, I would not stay for all the world. Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. 1.
  2. A perversion of God, used in oaths, as Gogs passion, Gogs wounds, etc. [Obsolete or provincial.]

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  1. Chiefly in the phrase on gog, agog: see agog. The relation, if any, to W. gog, activity, =: Irish and Gael, gog, a nod, a slight motion (see goggle), is uncertain.
 

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