▪ I. † gog2 Obs.
Also 7 gogge.
[App. formed by substitution of on gog for earlier agog (q.v.), gog being subsequently employed as an independent n.]
to set on gog, to stir up, excite, make eager; also to set (put) in such a gog for (or of). to be upon the gog of, to be eager for.
| 1560 T. Phaer æneid x, What wrath what feare sets these or those on gog not suffring rest to shield nor speare. 1575 [see agog]. 1587 Hughes Misfort. Arthur iii. i. (1828) 47 The selfsame cause which first Set them on gog, even fortunes favours quail'd. 1602 Breton Wonders worth hearing (Grosart) 11/2, I set her in such a gogge for a husband..that [etc.]. a 1616 Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. iii. i, You have put me into such a gogge of going I would not stay for all the world. 1672 Lacy Old Troop ii. (1698) 11 You have put me in such a gog of marriage, that it will not out of my head. 1673 O. Walker Educ. (1677) 43 When all Europe was upon the gog of fighting. |
▪ II. gog3 Obs. exc. dial.
(gɒg)
Also gogg.
[Of obscure origin; possibly f. the onomatopœic *gog to shake (see goggle n. 5 and v.1); for the sense cf. quagmire.]
A bog, swamp.
| 1583 [see b]. 1625 N. Carpenter Geog. Del. ii. iii. (1635) 46 Waters..bursting out of secret..concauities, doe produce infinite Fennes, Gogges, Lakes, and Marishes. a 1691 Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts (1847) 25 In Minety Common in Bradon forest..is a boggy place called the Gogges, where is a spring or springs, rising up out of fuller's earth. 1847–78 Halliwell, Gog, a bog. Oxon. 1854 A. E. Baker Northamptonsh. Gloss., Gog, a bog. ‘The land's full of gogs’, or ‘all of a gog’. |
b. Comb., as gog-mire, a quagmire.
| 1583 Fulke Defence i. §47. 61 Though it be tedious for vs to rake in such a gogmyre of your forgeries, and false accusations, yet [etc.]. 1862 Aubrey's Topogr. Collect. 271 note, ‘I be all in a gogg-mire’ is a North Wilts phrase for being in what appears an inextricable difficulty. |
Hence ˈgoggy a., dial., boggy.
| 1854 A. E. Baker Northamptonsh. Gloss., Goggy, boggy, soppy; as heavy, deep land. ‘It's very goggy’. In very general use among our agricultural labourers. |
▪ III. gog4 Sc.
[Origin obscure.]
‘The object set up as a mark in playing at Quoits, Pitch and Toss, etc.’ (Jam.).
| 1821 Blackw. Mag. Aug. 35/2 The parties stand at a little distance and pitch the halfpenny to a mark or gog. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Gog, a boy's marble, or taw in ring in the game of boorey. |