A dialectal or archaic plural or variant form, possibly related to 'gawk' or archaic terms for foolish behavior.
Uncertain etymology; possibly related to archaic or dialectal English words for foolishness or gawking, though the exact origin is obscure.
Words like 'gox' that appear rarely in historical texts are like archaeological artifacts of language—they show us dead ends in English where words were tried but never caught on.
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