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scottobearagog \uh-GAHG\, adjective:
in eager desire; eager; highly excited; astir
"By the second day he had found his sea-legs, and with hair flying and double-waistcoats flapping, he patrolled the deck agog with excitement, questioning and noting." --Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
"Kobe Bryant left the Minnesota Timberwolves agog after a series of eye-popping moves in a game last week." --New York Times, February 5, 1998
"He was now so interested, quite so privately agog, about it, that he had already an eye to the fun it would be to open up to her afterwards." --Henry James, The Ambassadors
"When we had got the spectators agog we would dive in." --R. Campbell, Light on Dark Horse
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From earlier on gog, deriving from Middle French en gogues, "in mirth; lively."
in eager desire; eager; highly excited; astir
"By the second day he had found his sea-legs, and with hair flying and double-waistcoats flapping, he patrolled the deck agog with excitement, questioning and noting." --Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
"Kobe Bryant left the Minnesota Timberwolves agog after a series of eye-popping moves in a game last week." --New York Times, February 5, 1998
"He was now so interested, quite so privately agog, about it, that he had already an eye to the fun it would be to open up to her afterwards." --Henry James, The Ambassadors
"When we had got the spectators agog we would dive in." --R. Campbell, Light on Dark Horse
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From earlier on gog, deriving from Middle French en gogues, "in mirth; lively."
