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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈɡɒɡ/
• 韻: -ɒɡ

副詞

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

1. In a state of high anticipation or interest.
2. Highly excited. Anxious, eager, impatient.

形容詞

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

1. In eager desire; eager; astir.
2. Wide open, principally used of eyes.
   • 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

同意語

• all-a-gog