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agog, adv.|əˈgɒg|
Also 6 on gogge.
[perh. ad. OFr. en gogues (15th c. in Littré ‘il estoit en gogues’; Cotgr. ‘estre en ses gogues to be frolicke, lustie, lively, wanton, gamesome, all-a-hoit, in a pleasant humour; in a veine of mirth, or in a merrie mood’), f. gogue ‘fun, diversion,’ of unknown origin. (See conjectures in Diez and Skeat. Prof. Rhys finds no etymon in Celtic.) Cf. also Fr. vivre à gogo to live like a lord, in abundance; see Littré.]
In eager readiness, expectation, or desire; on the move, astir. Const. inf., on, upon, for, with, about. In some instances now regarded as pred. adj.: eager, keen.
1542Udall Erasm. Apophth. (1877) 329 Beeying set agog to thinke all the worlde otemele. 1559Myrroure for Mag., Glendour xxiii. 1 And for to set us hereon more agog. 1575Turberville Booke of Venerie 92 To sette mens myndes on gogge. 1600Holland Livy xlv. xxxv. 1225 c, These words set them agog [His verbis incitatis]. 1656Trapp Exp. John xi. 53 (1868) 385/2 To set men agog upon mischief. 1663Cowley Cutter of Colem. St. v. xiii. (1710) II. 892, I ha' set her agog to Day for a Husband. 1782Cowper Gilpin x, Six precious souls and all agog To dash through thick and thin. 1792Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life (1832) II. 230 They are now agog with their republic. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. V. xiii. ix. 100 The Eldest, age fourteen, had gone quite agog about my little Girl, age only nine. 1887M. Arnold in Fortnightly Rev. July 2 Still, still I see the figure smart—Trophy in mouth agog to start, Then, home return'd, once more depart. 1903H. James Ambassadors iii. vii. 67 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. 1922Joyce Ulysses 440 Mrs Breen (All agog): O, not for worlds. 1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse vi. 97 When we had got the spectators agog we would dive in. 1979B. Moore Mangan Inheritance i. 27 Everyone agog, everyone loves gossip. |