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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ma•got (ma gō′, mä-, mag′ət),USA pronunciation n. - Zoology, MammalsSee Barbary ape.
- Zoology, Fine Arta small, grotesque Japanese or Chinese carved figure.
- French, Middle French, alteration of Magog, a people seduced by Satan in Rev. 20:8 (compare Magog); used figuratively in medieval legends of Oriental and hence non-Christian races, and probably applied derisively to the apes in allusion to the supposed grotesqueness of such races
- 1600–10
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