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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈɡɑɡ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈɡɒɡ/
• 韻: -ɒɡ

形容詞

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

1. In eager desire, eager, astir, or full of anticipation.

   Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.

   all agog

   • 1913, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Golden Road‎, L.C. Page & Co.:

     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?

   • 2000, Charles Baxter, chapter 3, in The Feast of Love, page 29:

     Whenever they managed to steal a peak at what he was doing, the other girls were agog that he loved me so much.

   • 2026 June 13, Alice Fisher, “Can robots build new towns?”, in FT Weekend (House & Home section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     Ever since the Labour government revived the new towns programme in July 2024, […] announcing its mandate to build 1.5mn homes by 2029, the UK's real estate industry has been agog to see how exactly it plans to do this.

2. (chiefly of eyes) Wide open, agape.
   • 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.

関連する語

• à gogo

副詞

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

1. In an astonished or excited manner.
   • 1919, Christopher Morley, “Titania Arrives”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 69:

     "Is this Mr. Mifflin?" she said, as he advanced all agog from his smoky corner.

アナグラム

• Gago

派生語

• demagog

アナグラム

• Gago