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athirst
English
Etymology
Old English ofþyrst, past participle of ofþyrstan (“to smart from thirst”), equivalent to a- (“of”, Etymology 8) +? thirst (verb).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?????st/
- Rhymes: -??(?)st
Adjective
athirst (comparative more athirst, superlative most athirst)
- (archaic) Thirsty.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 1,[1]
- Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 1,[1]
- (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).
- 1817, John Keats, “Sonnet (Written on a blank space at the end of Chaucer’s tale of ‘The Floure And The Leafe’”[2]
- I, that forever feel athirst for glory,
- Could at this moment be content to lie
- Meekly upon the grass, as those whose sobbings
- Were heard of none beside the mournful robins.
- 1878, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Ave Atque Vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire)” in Poems and Ballads, Second Series, Stanza IV,[3]
- O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping,
- That were athirst for sleep and no more life
- And no more love, for peace and no more strife!
- 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, translated from the Bengali by the author, 5,[4]
- I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
- My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.
- 1817, John Keats, “Sonnet (Written on a blank space at the end of Chaucer’s tale of ‘The Floure And The Leafe’”[2]
Anagrams
- ratshit, rattish, tartish, tirthas
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agog
English
Etymology
From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?????/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?????/
- Rhymes: -??
Adjective
agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)
- In eager desire, eager, astir.
- (chiefly of eyes) Wide open.
Synonyms
- all agog, all a-gog
Translations
Adverb
agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)
- In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.
Translations
Anagrams
- Gago
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