/ma goh", mah-, mag"euht/ , n.
1. See Barbary ape .
2. a small, grotesque Japanese or Chinese carved figure.
[ 1600-10; Magog, a people seduced by Satan in Rev. 20:8 (cf. MAGOG); used figuratively in medieval legends of Oriental and hence non-Christian races, and prob. applied derisively to the apes in allusion to the supposed grotesqueness of such races ]