agog: [15] Agog probably comes from Old French gogue ‘merriment’. It was used in the phrase en gogue, meaning ‘enjoying oneself’ (Randle Cotgrave, in his Dictionarie of the French and English tongues 1611, defines estre en ses gogues as ‘to be frolicke, lustie, lively, wanton, gamesome, all-a-hoit, in a pleasant humour; in a veine of mirth, or in a merrie mood’), and this was rendered into English as agog, with the substitution of the prefix a- (as in asleep) for en and the meaning toned down a bit to ‘eager’.
It is not clear where gogue came from (it may perhaps be imitative of noisy merrymaking), but later in its career it seems to have metamorphosed into go-go, either through reduplication of its first syllable (gogue had two syllables) or through assimilation of the second syllable to the first: hence the French phrase à go-go ‘joyfully’, and hence too English go-go dancers.
"in a state of desire; in a state of imagination; heated with the notion of some enjoyment; longing" [Johnson], c. 1400, perhaps from Old French en gogues "in jest, good humor, joyfulness," from gogue "fun," which is of unknown origin.
双语例句
1. The children were all agog to hear the story.
孩子们都渴望着要听这个故事.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2. The children were all agog to see their presents.
孩子都兴奋地急着要看给他们的礼物.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. The city was agog with rumours last night that the two had been executed.
那两人已被处决的传言昨晚搞得全城沸沸扬扬。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The prospect of Christmas left the children agog.
对圣诞节的憧憬使得孩子们兴奋不已
来自辞典例句
5. All London was agog to see the two " parents " of radium.
