Definizione monolingua

agog

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

1. In eager desire, eager, astir.
2. (chiefly of eyes) Wide open.
   • 1860, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury”, in Home Ballads:

     Cotton Mather came galloping down
     All the way to Newbury town,
     With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,
     And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;

   • 1894, Ford Madox Ford, The queen who flew: a fairy tale?, page 41:

     . . . and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.

   • 1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress, page 9:

     People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement . . .

   • 1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, page 190:

     Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods legendary denizens.

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

1. In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.

Definizione dizionario agog

curioso

	eccitato
	Eager and excited.

ansioso

curiosi

desideroso

impaziente

Altri significati:

In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.

(chiefly of eyes) Wide open.

In eager desire, eager, astir.

in eager desire