agog: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement A Cure for Brain Flab! One brain-building, at-a-glance email a day helps keep unsightly ignorance away. Click here for the KnowledgeNews cure!      Word of the Day for Sunday, April 23, 2006   agog \uh-GOG\, adjective: Full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen.   Kobe Bryant left the Minnesota Timberwolves agog after a series of eye-popping moves in a game last week. -- New York Times, February 5, 1998 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. -- Henry James, The Ambassadors By the second day he had found his sea-legs, and with hair flying and double-waistcoats flapping, he patrolled the deck agog with excitement, questioning and noting. -- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 Agog derives from Middle French en gogues, "in mirth; lively." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for agog   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6663007-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802