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Ogopogo Canad.|ˈəʊgəʊˈpəʊgəʊ|
[Fanciful, said to be from a British music-hall song by C. Clark (see quot. 1974).]
The name of a water monster alleged to live in Okanagan Lake, British Columbia. Also transf.
No contemporary (1924) copy of the song referred to in quot. 1974 has been traced.
1926Province (Vancouver) 24 Aug. 7 (heading) ‘Ogopogo’ now official name of the famous Okanagan sea serpent. 1927Ibid. 25 Sept. 24 Alberta claims to have an Ogopogo all its own. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 24 June 14/1 He blamed the ‘ogopogo’, famed lake monster. 1936A. F. Cross Cross Roads 71 Ogopogo's head is slightly reminiscent of Henry VIII, he has a torso like an accordion, and a tail like a shillelagh. Ogopogo is, of course, a celibate, because he lost his wife in the Carboniferous Age, and after the customary dinosaurian 1,000-year period of mourning, was once more seen about again. 1955Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 8 Feb. 12/6 The dispute arose when Ogopogo's name appeared on a new bridge across the South Saskatchewan. 1962G. MacEwan Blazing Old Cattle Trail vii. 46 The way was described as rough and mountainous but no Ogopogo lake serpents were reported. 1974P. Costello In Search of Lake Monsters x. 222 The old Indian name for the animal was Naitaka, or Nha'a'itk; the settlers name for it is now Ogopogo, which is far more recent in origin. It is not, as some seem to have thought, an Indian word. Back in 1924 the following music hall hit from London was sung one night in Vernon: His mother was an earwig, His father was a whale. A little bit of head, and hardly any tail, And Ogopogo was his name. |