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gogga noun- something frightening, monstrous or unwanted, especially in a political or business context SOUTH AFRICA, 1934
From the sense as “an insect”. - The equity gogga will simply fall asleep and we will all get on with the business of business. — Sunday Times (South Africa), 17 November 2002
- any insect SOUTH AFRICA, 1905
A generic term, from Khoikhoi xo-xon via Afrikaans. - An impulse made me reach for my watchmaker’s eye-glass; I slipped it into one eye and zoomed in on the little gogga. — Athol Fugard, Notebooks, p. 227, 1983
- a germ, a disease SOUTH AFRICA
- It’s unfit for human consumption being full of goggas that begin with a B. — Athol Fugard, Blood Knot, 1963
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