Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a state of eager desire; highly excited by eagerness or curiosity; astir.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- In eager desire; eager; astir.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In eager
desire ,eager ,astir . - adjective Wide open.
- adverb In a state of high
anticipation ,excitement , or interest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective highly excited
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I love the word agog, it sounds like caveman speech.
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In New Zealand, on the other hand, although in agog an Act was passed by which every man between 17 and 55 years of age is liable for service, the Government have lately decided to create a maximum force of 30,000 men, and to secure universal training.
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The image is straight out of National Geographic, circa 1955, complete with white warrior-king bringing civilization to the "agog" villagers of a primitive land.
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I'm kind of agog here that the developers in this thread don't seem to care about that, or regard it all as pointless whining by aggrieved forum ranters.
Order 66 2005
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The Ryeville Courier reported that the county was "agog" over the ball to be given by the veterans of the Rye House porch.
The Comings of Cousin Ann Emma Speed Sampson 1907
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Speaking of the late 80's and early 90's as a time of lovely women's fashions, I remember a little before that, in the early 80's, when we were all agog over Princess Diana's clothes.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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At which point I was kinda agog and just wandered off to read something that wasn't awful.
Odin's Day justbeast 2009
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The state unemployment numbers came out today, and the papers are all agog that that the unemployment rate is down to 7.0%.
State Unemployment “Stabilizes,” Maybe « View From a Height 2009
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Now Washington is agog in a new president with big plans.
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He is recently returned from the war and everyone at the office is agog to have him back.
brtom commented on the word agog
"Funny to go agog in wonderment and distress ..."
John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti
January 26, 2007