Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a state of eager desire; highly excited by eagerness or curiosity; astir.
Wiktionary
- adj. In eager desire, eager, astir.
- adj. Wide open.
- adv. In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- In eager desire; eager; astir.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly excited
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old French, en + gogues "in a merry mood". See also the Italian agognare ("to desire eagerly") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English agogge, from Old French en gogue, in merriment : en, in (from Latin in; see in-2) + gogue, merriment. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I love the word agog, it sounds like caveman speech.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The Ryeville Courier reported that the county was "agog" over the ball to be given by the veterans of the Rye House porch.”
“Now Washington is agog in a new president with big plans.”
“He is recently returned from the war and everyone at the office is agog to have him back.”
“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
“At which point I was kinda agog and just wandered off to read something that wasn't awful.”
“The state unemployment numbers came out today, and the papers are all agog that that the unemployment rate is down to 7.0%.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘agog’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 112 more...
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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word list
abligurition, humectant, absterge, dactylonomy, agamous, olecranon, geosmin, sphallolalia, aquiline, obloquy, quiescent, fother and 17 more...
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said without sound
facial expressions, gestures, postures or attitudes that communicate specific meanings
moue, glower, simper, fleer, lour, agog, distasture, volage, unction, inkhorn, obsequious, squinny and 2 more...
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josholalia's list
ineluctable, glossolalia, agog, echolalia, minaret, pillory, usury, gimlet, carioca, sniveling, concave, convex and 15 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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MyList
peter out, fraying, jump on the bandw..., indignation, eclectic, hung up, salutary, hoary, warped, glaring, blue-collar, concomitant and 105 more...
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GRE Words
orotund, mendacious, inimical, foment, contumacious, abrogate, arrogate, syncretism, abate, abdication, aberration, abeyance and 123 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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btkuhn's list
persnickety, perspicuity, perspicacity, augur, churlish, enervate, schadenfreude, esoteric, lionize, dispositive, capricious, bibulous and 129 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for agog.

brtom "Funny to go agog in wonderment and distress ..."
John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti Jan 26, 2007