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eager

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?i??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?i???/
  • Rhymes: -i???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English egre, eger, from Old French egre (French aigre), from Latin acer (sharp, keen); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

Alternative forms

  • aigre (obsolete)
  • eagre (obsolete)

Adjective

eager (comparative more eager, superlative most eager)

  1. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
    • 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year
      When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
    • a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
  2. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
    an eager algorithm
  3. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
    • gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
  4. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
  5. (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
Synonyms
  • keen
  • raring
  • fain (archaic)
Derived terms
  • eager beaver
  • eagerly
  • eagerness
Translations

Etymology 2

See eagre.

Noun

eager (plural eagers)

  1. Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).

Further reading

  • eager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • eager in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • eager at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • aeger, agree, eagre, geare, æger

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nost

Latvian

Adverb

nost

  1. away
    Rokas nost!
    Hands off!

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English n?st, second person singular indicative of Old English nytan (to not know).

Contraction

nost

  1. Contraction of ne wost; wost not; knowest not.
    þu nost wanne crist ure drikte
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

References

  • “witen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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