agog

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What I brought to it that morning was a mind agog, attuned to receive these expected outside sounds.

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  1. adjective Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager.

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  • "Knowing this town's telephone service as I do, I'll have plenty of time to listen, and you don't know how all-agog I am for inside gossip on Hamilton's upper crust Idiot!" —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Murder at Bridge, by Anne Austin
  • Theatres were agog, last minute ladies rushing in, skirts lifted, squealing. —  dummy 3
  • The moment your curiosity is agog, or your cambric seized, you recollect a good cousin in England, and, as folks said two hundred years ago, begin to write “upon the knees of your heart.” Well! —  Letters of Horace Walpole, v1
  • The town was all agog: people ran from every street to get a look at the renegade, who came to take possession of a Jewish inheritance. —  In Those Days
  • Literary London went agog, and Mrs. Austen fanned the flame by inviting “the set” to her drawing-room to hear the great author read from his amusing work. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
 

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  1. Middle English agogge, from Old French en gogue, in merriment : en, in (from Latin in; see in-2) + gogue, merriment.

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  1. Formerly on gog, on gogge, perhaps from Old French en gogues: “estre en ses gogues, to be frolick, lusty, lively, wanton, gamesome, all a hoit, in a pleasant humour; in a vein of mirth, or in a merry mood” (literally be in his glee), “gogues, jollity, glee, joyfulness, light-heartedness” (Cotgrave), in singular gogue, mirth, glee (Roquefort), “se goguer, to be most frolick, lively, blithe, crank, merry,” etc. (Cotgrave); origin uncertain. The W. gog, activity, velocity, gogi, agitate, shake, appear to be unoriginal, and may be from English
 

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