agog
UK/əˈɡɒɡ//əˈɡɑɡ/
agog adjective: in a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity.
Adjective
agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)
- In a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity.
- all agog
- Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
- Wide open, agape.
- 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;1860, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury”, in Home Ballads - […] 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.1894, Ford Madox Ford, The queen who flew: a fairy tale, page 41
- Cotton Mather came galloping down
Adverb
agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)
- In an astonished or excited manner.
- "Is this Mr. Mifflin?" she said, as he advanced all agog from his smoky corner.1919, Christopher Morley, “Titania Arrives”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 69
agog meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
agog in Urdu
- بےقرار, مشتاق
agog in Malayalam
- ഉത്കണ്ഠയോടുകൂടിയ, ആശയോടെ, തത്പരമായി, ആവേശത്തോടെ
Examples of agog in a sentence
- By that time not only the Australian press and public but also the Federal Government was agog with speculation as fresh UFO reports flowed in.1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 31:
- Keen was the frost and crisp the snow over our world; and we young fry of the King households were all agog to enjoy life—for was it not Saturday, and were we not left all alone to keep house?1913, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Golden Road, L.C. Page & Co.:
- Whenever they managed to steal a peak at what he was doing, the other girls were agog that he loved me so much.2000, Charles Baxter, chapter 3, in The Feast of Love, page 29:
- People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement […]1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress, page 9:
Forms of agog
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more agog |
| superlative | most agog |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more agog |
| superlative | most agog |
Origin of agog
From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).
Words that rhyme with agog
Questions about agog
- What does agog mean?
- Agog means in a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity.
- What is agog in Urdu?
- Agog in Urdu is بےقرار, مشتاق. See Agog meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use agog in a sentence?
- By that time not only the Australian press and public but also the Federal Government was agog with speculation as fresh UFO reports flowed in.
- What part of speech is agog?
- Agog can be an adjective or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce agog?
- Agog is pronounced /əˈɡɑɡ/ (US).
Words near agog in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: agog (page history and authors); agog (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agog (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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